Palestinian shot during settler march through West Bank towns

Nablus (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – One Palestinian was shot and wounded during an Israeli settler march through several West Bank Palestinian towns Friday that sparked clashes with locals, first responders, the army and an AFP journalist said.

“Our crews in Nablus are treating a young man who was shot with live ammunition in the abdomen during an Israeli army and settler raid on the al-Junaid area,” the Palestinian Red Crescent said.

Israeli settlers organised a march Friday morning in the northern West Bank in memory of two Israelis killed last week during clashes in the Palestinian town of Tell, near Nablus, during which four Palestinians were also killed.

An AFP journalist at the scene said that between 100 and 150 settlers including women and children came near Tell from the west, the direction of Havat Gilad, the home settlement of one of the killed Israelis.

The settlers, roughly ten of whom were armed, marched through fields near Tell, through the nearby town of Sarra and the Nablus neighbourhood of al-Junaid, while army troops stationed along the route periodically dispersed settlers and Palestinians when clashes occurred, the AFP journalist said.

The journalist saw settlers raiding at least one building in Tell, and four in al-Junaid, where a clash broke out with Palestinian youth, before the army dispersed the crowd, firing tear gas.

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