Youth shot dead by Israeli occupation soldiers near Bethlehem


BETHLEHEM: A Palestinian young man was shot dead by Israeli occupation soldiers in a deadly incident tonight which occurred west of Bethlehem in the south of the occupied West Bank, according to medical sources.

The Ministry of Health confirmed the martyrdom of 38-year-old Mohammad Sayel Al-Jundi from the town of Yatta, located south of Hebron. The fatal shooting occurred when the occupying Israeli military opened fire on him near the so-called an-Nafaq military checkpoint west of Bethlehem.

At least 530 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces and colonial settler militias in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of this year, according to human rights groups.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA