Tubas – Ma’an – The Ministry of Health announced, at dawn on Tuesday, that the death toll from the Israeli army’s storming of the town of Aqaba, north of Tubas, has risen to four martyrs and seven injuries, including two in critical condition.
The four martyrs are: martyr Ayser Muhammad Qasim Abu Ara (36 years old), martyr Nour Muhammad Yassin al-Yassin (19 years old), martyr Ameed Yassin Ghanem (19 years old), and martyr child Bilal Izz al-Din Sawafta (14 years old).
The occupation forces sent military reinforcements to the vicinity of the Turkish Governmental Hospital in Tubas, and opened fire on the citizens, which led to the martyrdom of the child Bilal Izz al-Din Sawafta.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its crews dealt with 7 citizens injured by live bullets, two of whom were described as having serious injuries, one in the head, another in the chest, and the third in the back, and a young man with a live bullet fragment in the eye, and they were transferred to the Turkish Governmen
tal Hospital in Tubas.
In a later development at dawn today, the director of the Prisoners Club in Tubas, Kamal Bani Odeh, reported that the occupation forces arrested the citizen Yassin Rasem Yassin Ghanem, after he was injured inside one of the besieged houses.
The occupation forces stormed the town of Aqaba and surrounded a house, which led to clashes with young men, during which the occupation soldiers fired live bullets, which led to the injury of four young men.
Local sources reported that special units of the occupation army stormed the town at first, and surrounded one of the houses, before being followed by the occupation military vehicles.
Source: Maan News Agency