Two youths were today injured by live bullets and others suffered suffocation during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces in the village of Asira al-Qibliya, south of Nablus.

The head of Asira village council, Hafez Saleh, told WAFA that an Israeli army foot patrol stormed the eastern area of the village leading to the outbreak of confrontations during which the soldiers fired live bullets and toxic tear gas canisters injuring two young men with live bullets, one in the hand and the other in the leg, while others suffocated from the tear gas.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA