Zionist Forces Martyr another Palestinian

Local Editor

In a second crime within 24 hours, "Israeli" troops martyred a Palestinian during a raid in the occupied West Bank, a hospital official said.

Falah Abu Maria, 50, was shot in the chest in his home in the village of Beit Omar near the southern city of al-Khalil, neighbors said.

He had run downstairs to see what was happening when troops stormed his house to arrest his son Mohammed, they added.

The hospital said that the 24-year-old son was being treated for a gunshot wound to the leg.

"Israeli" sources claimed that soldiers were pelted with stones by relatives and locals around the scene of the arrest, and one soldier was choked.

On Wednesday, Palestinian medical and security sources said Zionist troops shot dead a Palestinian man near the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank.

Mohammed Alawneh, 22, was martyred during the clashes that erupted after an "Israeli" forces stormed the village of Birqin, west of Jenin.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team