4 new fires erupted in Israeli settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip as a result of incendiary balloons being launched from the Strip, while the occupation army hit a boy in the head in confrontations with Palestinian youths in the northern West Bank.
The official Israeli channel said that the series of fires, which have continued since Tuesday, have caused severe damage to large areas of agricultural land and destroyed their crops.
On Tuesday, about 30 fires broke out in the settlements bordering the Gaza Strip, after incendiary balloons were launched from the Strip against the backdrop of settlers organizing a provocative flags march in occupied East Jerusalem.
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The channel quoted a farmer from Niram as saying that the firefighters did not deal with one of the burning orchards in the settlement since yesterday for fear of being targeted from the Gaza Strip.
On Tuesday evening, thousands of settlers danced with flags in the Bab al-Amoud area, one of the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem, with some of them chanting racist phrases against the Arabs and the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
In response, Palestinian youths organized demonstrations near the Gaza border strip, and launched incendiary balloons towards Israeli territory.
At dawn today, Wednesday, Israeli warplanes launched a series of raids on two sites of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, without causing any casualties.
Medical sources inside Rafidia Hospital, where the boy was transferred, described his injury as “critical, but he is still alive.”
Eyewitnesses told Al Jazeera Net that the occupation soldiers fired live bullets directly at the young men who were demonstrating against the establishment of a new Israeli settlement on Mount Sabih on the lands of citizens south of the town of Beita, and added that a bullet penetrated the head of the young man, Bani Shamsa, and then he was transferred to the town clinic to provide him with first aid and from Then to Rafidia Hospital to complete the treatment.
They stated that as soon as he arrived at the hospital, he was given first aid, and then he was transferred to the operating room to complete his treatment.
For more than a month, confrontations have taken place almost daily between the people of Beita town and the occupation soldiers and settlers. Within a month, 3 young men from the town were martyred during the peaceful popular demonstrations, and hundreds were wounded, some of them seriously, which led to their disability.