IOF troops kill elderly Palestinian in W. Bank incursion

Two Palestinian citizens, including 70-year-old man, were killed by IOF troops as tens of IOF armored vehicles pushed into the West Bank city of Nablus at dawn Tuesday, Palestinian sources affirmed. The sources identified the elderly Palestinian as Abd Shaker Wazeer, affirming that he was shot dead by a band of Israeli soldiers immediately after he opened the door of his house on their orders. He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition but, the sources added, he died along the way before he could reach the hospital due to the soldiers' deliberate blocking of the ambulance that transported him. The second Palestinian fatality was identified as Bassim Abu Surreyya, one of the Palestinian resistance field commanders in Nablus city, who died of wounds he had sustained in earlier clashes with the invading IOF troops in the refugee camp. Three other Palestinian fighters were critically wounded when the intruding IOF troops unleashed a missile at one of the houses in the city the fighters had sought as shelter. Fierce armed clashes erupted between tens of Israeli occupation soldiers backed by at least 30 armored vehicles and apache choppers on the one hand, and few Palestinian resistance fighters belong to the Faris Al-Lail (Night Knight) armed group which is an offshoot of Fatah faction on the other hand. The IOF troops were seen cordoning off the Ettehad and the Watani hospital in the city with the aim to block and arrest wounded Palestinian fighters in the event they are brought to those hospitals for treatment. However, local eyewitnesses affirmed that the fighting was still going on at the Biet Ein Al-Ma'a refugee camp, a stronghold of the Faris Al-Lail group, amidst persistent reports that the IOF troops were posing to demolish one of the buildings in the camp on a number of Palestinian fighters entrenched inside and rejecting calls from IOF troops to give up. The armed group was one of the Palestinian resistance factions that rejected Israel's "deceptive" amnesty and refused to lay down their weapons, vowing to "continue on the path of resistance till the full liberation of occupied Palestine". Tens of Fatah fighters believed to be associated with the mutiny trend within the faction had surrendered their weapons to the PA security apparatuses on Israeli and Abbas promises that they won't be pursued or arrested by the IOF troops. Yet, facts on the ground proved that those promises were only fictitious pledges as IOF troops arrested a number of those fighters after they surrendered and gave up the resistance option.