The injured child Abdul Rahman Yasser Shteiwi (10 years), from Kufrkum, was taken to hospital with a bullet wound of the explosive type used by the Israeli army, said Dr. Qassim Daghlis, director of Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, north of the West Bank. , Has been a process but his situation is very critical and unstable. "
Shteiwi was seriously wounded on Friday in clashes between residents of the West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum and Israeli soldiers.
The people of Kafr Qaddum have been organizing for eight years every Friday and Saturday a popular march demanding the opening of a road closed by the Israeli army in 2013.
"The Israeli army fired live ammunition in an insane manner," said Murad Shteiwi, coordinator of the Popular Resistance to the Wall, during a weekly march in Kafr Qaddoum, west of Nablus. .
An AFP photographer confirmed that violent clashes took place between the residents of Kafr Qaddoum and the Israeli army, during which the soldiers fired live ammunition.
"There could have been a large number of casualties," Shteiwi said, accusing dozens of Israeli soldiers of firing live ammunition directly at the rally.
"The weekly march has been going on for eight years, and we have not seen the repression that took place today, they usually fire gas and bullets into the air, but today there has been an unprecedented crackdown."
