A US citizen told AFP he was shot by Israeli forces and wounded in the leg.
NABLUS – A US citizen told AFP he was shot by Israeli forces and wounded in the leg during a protest Friday against settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, as the Israeli military confirmed it fired live rounds to disperse the gathering.
"There was a demonstration and we were there to film, to make sure we have eyes on the occupation army," he told AFP from hospital bed in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.Israeli troops were "firing tear gas at us, live rounds," Sison added. "Shortly after, a report was received regarding a foreign national who was accidentally injured by the riot dispersal means and was evacuated to the hospital," the military statement said.
Excluding east Jerusalem, the territory is home to about three million Palestinians who live alongside some 490,000 Israeli settlers.
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