With
additional reporting by Maha Abdul Hadi, IOL Palestine correspondent
NABLUS,
West Bank, January 11 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A
Palestinian stone-thrower was shot dead and nine others were wounded
by Israeli occupation soldiers in the Askar refugee camp in the West
Bank town of Nablus Saturday, January 11, witnesses and medical
sources said.
Bassem
Shanir, 20, was shot dead when a group of Palestinian youths threw
rocks at Israeli armored vehicles. The Israeli soldiers answered with
live fire, they said, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Two
of the nine wounded Palestinians were in a critical condition, the
Palestinian medical sources said.
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Earlier
Saturday, Israeli occupation troops withdrew from the West Bank town
of Jenin and its adjacent refugee camp following a sweeping incursion
into the city earlier.
The
forces of the Palestinian resistance exchanged fire with the Israeli
troops, who forced Palestinian residents out of their houses in a
frosty weather, local sources told IslamOnline’s correspondent.
IslamOnline
learned that the hospital of Jenin did not receive any wounded
Palestinians.
AFP
quoted a military Israeli official as describing the Jenin operation
as "routine," adding that the number of the Israeli forces
was not large.
The
Israeli official said the curfew imposed on Jenin had been lifted,
pointing out that the Israeli soldiers had returned to their positions
on the outskirts of the city.
Earlier
on Saturday morning, some 50 armored vehicles and 300 infantry moved
into the area, and soldiers carried out house-to-house searches before
withdrawing to their positions.
Explosive
devices were thrown at the soldiers, but no casualties occurred. There
were also no initial reports of any arrests being made.
In
the meantime, medical Palestinian sources in the West Bank city of
Nablus said they have found the body of Sami Mohammed Samir, 23, who
was shot dead by Israeli gunfire during the first few days of January.
The body was found mutilated and rotten, the sources added.
