Palestinian youth shot by occupation forces south of Bethlehem

Members of Israeli security forces stand guard near the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

A Palestinian youth was shot by the Israeli occupation forces on Monday near Gush Etzion junction, south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. The occupation soldiers shot and injured a young man, who is still unidentified, Palstine's News Agency (WAFA) quoted security sources as saying. On the other hand, dozens of Palestinians suffered from suffocation during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces in the towns of Al-Yamoun, Ya'bad and Kafr Dan village in Jenin governorate, in the northern West Bank. The occupation forces also stormed the village of Kafr Dan and the town of Al-Yamoun, and arrested two Palestinian citizens, one of whom is the brother of the prisoner Ayham Kamamji, who was one of the six prisoners who managed to escape from Gilboa prison last week.