Hebron – Ma’an – Hajj Ahmed Abdel Qader Al-Marqatan, 65 years old, was admitted to Hebron Governmental Hospital, as a result of being shot in the right leg with a settler’s weapon.

Al-Marqatun’s family said that Hajj Ahmed was working on his land in the Taiba area, west of Hebron, close to the “Adora” settlement, where Mastokin shot him, wounding him in the leg, and his condition is stable until now.

The family added, in their conversation with our correspondent in Hebron, that two settlers were driving the ‘Tracktron’ and tried to force the Hajj to leave his land, and when he did not respond to them, one of them shot him, and the second said to him, ‘Shall we bring you an ambulance to take you to the hospital for treatment?’ The Hajj told them. That his children preceded his treatment.

Source: Maan News Agency