UPDATES WITH INJURIES, REVISES HEADLINE, LEDE, ADDS DETAILS
By Awad Rjoob and Rania Abu Shamala
RAMALLAH, Palestine/ISTANBUL (AA) – Several Palestinians were injured late Monday in Israeli assaults in the northern occupied West Bank.
Five Palestinians were injured, one of them critically, after Israeli forces opened fire on a vehicle.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement that five members of one family were brought to Tubas Government Hospital after an assault by Israeli forces on the town of Tammun.
The casualties included the father, who suffered a critical head wound, the mother, who sustained moderate injuries, and three children with minor injuries, according to the ministry.
Earlier, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said its teams treated three people inside a vehicle after Israeli forces opened fire in Tammun, noting that one was hit in the head by a bullet fragment, another in the shoulder and a third in the legs.
Meanwhile, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said Israeli special forces had infiltrated Tammun.
Palestinian state radio Voice of Palestine reported that the Israeli army was sending additional reinforcements toward the town following the infiltration.
In a separate incident in the town, the Palestine Red Crescent said its crews transferred a 55-year-old man to the hospital who was shot in the knee in his home in Tammun.
In a third incident, Voice of Palestine reported that Israeli forces arrested a young man after he was shot in Tammun with no official information available on his condition.
Since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 7,000 injured in the West Bank by Israeli forces and illegal settlers, according to the Health Ministry.
In an advisory opinion in July last year, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory illegal and called for the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.