Palestinian fisherman injured in IOF shooting

 GAZA,– A Palestinian fisherman was slightly wounded on Saturday when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) aboard navy gunboats opened heavy machinegun fire at fishermen off the coast of northern Gaza city.

Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for the medical services, told the PIC that the IOF firing wounded the 25-year-old youth in both his feet, adding that he was hospitalized.

The IOF shooting at Palestinian civilians in Gaza Strip killed 13 and wounded 34 others in the current month of December.

Meanwhile, in the West Bank IOF soldiers stormed the village of Ya’bad, west of Jenin city, along with six other villages in the same area.

Eyewitnesses said that the soldiers mounting 15 armored vehicles broke into a tobacco factory in Ya’bad and wreaked havoc in it without giving any reason.