Nablus: Six Palestinians were injured on Saturday during an armed assault by Israeli occupation forces on the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

According to Qatar News Agency, the six Palestinians were wounded by live ammunition, mostly in the lower limbs, and were transferred to hospital for treatment.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its crews treated a young man in his thirties who was wounded by live ammunition in his chest, and his injury was described as critical. They also treated a citizen (50 years old) who was injured by live ammunition in the hand, along with four young men from lower extremity injuries. The injured were transferred to the hospital.

Medical sources stated that a 4-year-old child was injured in his face, in addition to two young women (25 and 24 years old) with bruises after being run over by an occupation military vehicle in the Al-Thanawiya Street area in the city of Jenin, and they were taken to the hospital.