Earlier this month, another video showed Israeli forces seizing and destroying a Palestinian girl’s bicycle.
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The troops “responded with riot dispersal means and fired 0.22 calibre bullets towards main instigators”, the spokeswoman said, adding that the troops had found “two improvised handguns, other weapons and ammunition”.
Israeli army bulldozers, on Wednesday morning, have reportedly leveled Palestinian-owned lands to the south of Hebron province.
Israeli soldiers search a Palestinian at an Israeli checkpoint in the Palestinian al-Fawwar refugee camp, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Aug. 16, 2016.
Like all refugee camps in the occupied territories, it is now a separate town with proper buildings and public services provided by UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.
Fawwar is near the Jewish settlement of Beit Hagai and a military base, and the Israeli military has built a watchtower at the camp’s entrance.
The closure of the camp entrance put “a great burden on residents and caused a lot of anger and frustration”, B’Tselem stated.
“Along with the orders to carry out shooting attacks and suicide bombings against Israeli targets, the agents were ordered to help recruit more (Palestinians) for the organisation’s activities”, a Shin Bet statement read.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that the Hebron closures “amount to collective punishment”.
At least five Palestinians were taken to a local hospital in Yatta for their injuries, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency said.
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah and Al-Ayyam said that the Israeli army is working to recruit members of the “Hilltop Youth” terror organization, which is responsible for many terrorist attacks against Palestinian civilians.
