TULKARM: The Ministry of Health announced this evening that a young Palestinian man succumbed to his wounds-which he had sustained earlier today-after being shot with live ammunition by Israeli occupation soldiers north of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank.
The Ministry said in a statement it was informed by the General Authority for Civil Affairs that 25-year-old Salem Nasser Hajar died of his critical wounds which he had sustained earlier today from live Israeli ammunition.
Hajar was shot by Israeli occupation forces earlier in the day while accompanying his brother, who was arrested by the forces near the Israeli segregation wall west of the town of Deir al-Ghusun, north of Tulkarm, the statement said.
Witnesses reported that Israeli occupation soldiers stationed at ones of the gates of the segregation wall fired shots at the young man, a resident of Shweikeh neighborhood in Tulkarm, hitting him in the head.
The ministry added that the occupation forces arrested Hajar and transferred him to a hospital
in the 1948 territories, while his brother Saif, who was with him, was also detained.
With the martyrdom of Hajar, the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank has risen to 290 since October 7.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA