Palestinian student critically wounded by Israeli troops

(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Ramallah, Feb 19 (Petra) –– Israeli occupation forces on Sunday shot and critically wounded a Palestinian student when they fired rubber bullets outside a school near the West Bank city of Nablus, according to a Palestinian source.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said in a statement that Israeli troops fired rubber-coated metal pellets as students were leaving the school in Bazarya village, injuring Osama Odeh, who was struck in the abdomen.

He said Odeh was shot from close range and was in a critical condition.

Earlier in the day, Israeli forces rounded up 14 Palestinians in search-and-arrest raids in Nablus, Hebron, Bethlehem and Arab neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, a Ramallah-based NGO.

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