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| IDF: Returning fire at Palestinian gunmen, troops critically wound Palestinian child |
| 2023-06-02 |
| [IsraelTimes] Military ’regrets’ harm to civilians, says troops near settlement responded to gunfire, mistakenly hitting father, toddler; separately, soldier lightly hurt in shooting near Nablus A Paleostinian father and a young boy who were seriously maimed in an exchange of gunfire between Paleostinian button men and Israeli troops near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank were apparently hit by Israeli fire, the military said late Thursday. An earlier report had suggested the father and boy, a three-year-old, were likely hit by Paleostinian fire when the button men shot at an Israeli military post near the settlement. The Israel Defense Forces said that following an initial investigation, it appeared two Paleostinian button men opened fire on the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf (also known as Halamish), near the Paleostinian town of Nabi Saleh on Thursday night and that troops stationed at the adjacent army post on Route 465 returned fire. Moments after the exchange, a Paleostinian man and his child appeared at the entrance to Neve Tzuf with serious injuries to seek medical help. It appeared that "as a result of the gunfire by the [Israeli] forces, two Paleostinians were hurt," the military said in a statement, adding that it "regrets the harm" to noncombatants. A probe into the incident was underway, it said. The military was searching for the suspected shooters, the IDF added. The Magen David Adom ambulance service said its medics treated the three-year-old boy at death's door and the man in his forties at death's door. The toddler was rushed to the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan by military helicopter, while the man was taken by the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy to a hospital in the West Bank. The Israeli hospital said the young boy remained at death's door. The Rescuers Without Borders emergency service had initially said that the two Paleostinians arrived near the IDF post when it came under fire, and were thought to have been hit by the gunshots fired by the Paleostinian attackers. Separately, Israeli troops stationed near the West Bank village of Dayr Sharaf came under Paleostinian fire from "deep within the city of Nablus" early Friday morning, and one soldier was lightly maimed, the military said. The soldier was taken to hospital for treatment. The shooting on Thursday night came two days after an Israeli man was rubbed out by Paleostinian button men in the northern West Bank. Tensions between Israel and the Paleostinians have been elevated for the past year, with the military carrying out near-nightly raids in the West Bank, in the wake of a series of deadly Paleostinian terror attacks. The IDF said that during arrest raids early Thursday troops detained 19 wanted Paleostinians. During operations early Friday, two suspects were detained, including one suspected of opening fire at an IDF ambulance in the southern West Bank on Monday, the IDF said. |
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