The West Bank: Europe and the Arabs - Agencies
Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested the perpetrator of the shooting attack in Bethlehem, in the central West Bank, which took place earlier today.
The Israeli army radio stated that the perpetrator of the attack was arrested after storming the city of Bethlehem and closing all its entrances and exits to arrest the perpetrator of the attack, as a mosque was besieged and confrontations took place with Palestinian youths.
Palestinian sources said that dozens of Palestinian citizens suffocated during clashes with the occupation.
Eyewitnesses stated that the occupation forces fired a barrage of bullets and tear gas canisters during the confrontations, which resulted in dozens of suffocation cases, and dozens of dunams were burned by the incendiary bombs fired by the occupation forces in the cinema area in the center of Bethlehem.
Israeli media reported this morning that a settler was wounded in a shooting attack at the Tuqu' junction, south of Bethlehem, to the south of the occupied city of Jerusalem.
The Israeli Channel 12 reported that the 35-year-old settler's injury was described as between medium and serious, and that the perpetrator of the attack fired at the settler's car, injuring the settler's two daughters with shrapnel, indicating that the perpetrator of the operation targeted the settler without his daughters. According to the Middle East News Agency
According to the same source, the Israeli occupation forces arrested, on Sunday morning, four Palestinians from the governorates of "Nablus" and "Bethlehem", north and south of the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian security sources said that a Palestinian citizen was wounded by live bullets, while three others were arrested, after their homes were raided and searched, during the occupation forces' incursion into Nablus governorate.
The sources added that the occupation forces stormed the village of "Abu Najim" in Bethlehem, and arrested a young man after searching his family's house.