Israeli settlers fatally shot two Palestinians in the village of Qusra in the West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian foreign ministry said in a statement. Violence has been rising in the occupied territory following Hamas' terror attacks on Israel last weekend.
A Palestinian man and his son were shot when the settlers attacked the funeral procession of four Palestinians who were killed in Qusra by armed settlers on Wednesday, the statement said. As an ambulance carried the man and his son away after the initial attack, settlers shot at the emergency vehicle and killed the pair, the statement said.
Armed settlers also shot at vehicles in the streets of the occupied West Bank towns of Sawiya and Turmisiyya on Thursday, the statement said.
The Palestinian Red Crescent aid group said it helped people with severe gunshot wounds in the West Bank town of Qabalan on Thursday. A 63-year-old man shot in the abdomen and a 26-year-old man have been transferred to the hospital, the PRC said.
A total of 610 injuries have been reported in the West Bank since Saturday, the PRC said, 21 of which occurred Thursday. Of those 21 injures, live fire caused 13 of them, the PRC said.
