JENIN (Ma’an) -- Four people were injured by fragments of Israeli ammunition after troops fired into the air while a funeral procession passed through a gate in the separation wall in the northern West Bank on Saturday.
Mourners from Dhaher al-Malih, a Palestinian village cut off from the West Bank behind Israel's separation wall, tried to pass through a gate to bury Fathi al-Khatib in a cemetery near Tura, in the Palestinian West Bank.
The party had permissions, a Ma'an correspondent said, but when they refused an order from Israeli forces to pass through the separation wall checkpoint one-by-one, troops fired into the air.
Four men were injured by shards of ammunition, including three sons of the deceased man.
Abdullah, Muhammad, and Mustapha al-Khatib, as well as Ahmad Qabha, suffered light injuries and received medical attention on the scene, a Ma'an correspondent said.
An Israeli army spokeswomen said the group arrived "four hours ahead of their scheduled crossing time and believed they were barred from crossing."
"They approached the soldiers in a manner that made them nervous so in line with army protocol the soldiers fired in the air, lightly injuring two Palestinians, who did not need treatment," after which the party crossed into the West Bank, she said.
Mourners from Dhaher al-Malih, a Palestinian village cut off from the West Bank behind Israel's separation wall, tried to pass through a gate to bury Fathi al-Khatib in a cemetery near Tura, in the Palestinian West Bank.
The party had permissions, a Ma'an correspondent said, but when they refused an order from Israeli forces to pass through the separation wall checkpoint one-by-one, troops fired into the air.
Four men were injured by shards of ammunition, including three sons of the deceased man.
Abdullah, Muhammad, and Mustapha al-Khatib, as well as Ahmad Qabha, suffered light injuries and received medical attention on the scene, a Ma'an correspondent said.
An Israeli army spokeswomen said the group arrived "four hours ahead of their scheduled crossing time and believed they were barred from crossing."
"They approached the soldiers in a manner that made them nervous so in line with army protocol the soldiers fired in the air, lightly injuring two Palestinians, who did not need treatment," after which the party crossed into the West Bank, she said.
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