Nablus - Saba:
A Palestinian was killed in the town of Huwara, and four children were injured in Hebron and Balata refugee camp.
A young Palestinian man was killed by Israeli enemy fire after midnight last night near the town of Huwara, south of Nablus.
The Ministry of Health told the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) that the General Authority for Civil Affairs had informed it of the death of Ismail Samer Othman Sharafa (18 years old) from the town of Beita, by Israeli forces near the town of Huwara.
Local sources said that Israeli forces executed Sharafa by shooting him directly before seizing his body.
Israeli forces also wounded three children with live ammunition and arrested a citizen and his daughter last night during their raid on the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.
Activist Muhammad Awad said that Israeli forces stormed several neighborhoods in the town and fired live ammunition at civilians, wounding three 16-year-old children: two with live bullets in the thigh and a third with live bullets in the leg.
He added that Palestinian Red Crescent Society crews transported the injured to a health center in the town before transferring them to hospitals in the city.
In a related development, Israeli forces arrested Mahmoud Khader Abu Maria and his 18-year-old daughter, Ghina, after raiding and searching his home and ransacking its contents.
Local sources reported that Israeli forces fired live ammunition at worshippers in the Beit Ummar mosque in the center of the town. They continued to raid neighborhoods in the town amid gunfire.
In the same context, a child was injured at dawn on Thursday by Israeli forces during a raid on Balata Camp, east of Nablus.
Amid Ahmed, director of the Red Crescent Emergency and Ambulance Center in Nablus, reported that ambulance crews responded to a 15-year-old boy who was shot in the foot by Israeli forces during the raid on Balata Camp. He was then transferred to the hospital.
Israeli forces stormed Balata Camp amid heavy gunfire and deployed throughout the camp's alleys.
Enemy forces also stormed the Sufyan Street area in the center of Nablus and the Rafidia area, amid heavy sound bombs and toxic gas attacks.
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