Palestinian child, 5, struck in the eye with a rubber-coated metal bullet during Nablus-area clashes

A Palestinian child was struck in the eye with a rubber-coated metal bullet fired by Israeli forces during confrontations that broke out this evening near the village of Bizzariya, southwest of the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, according to Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Emergency and Ambulance Department in Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activists in the northern West Bank, said confrontations erupted at the entrance of the aforementioned village, during which Israeli soldiers opened heavy fire at Palestinian residents. head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Emergency and Ambulance Department said that Paramedics brought a five-year-old injured child to hospital after he was struck in the eye with a rubber-coated steel bullet while he was present inside his father’s car. The child was identified as Khaled Akram Malalha.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA