By KUNA
Ramallah : Israeli forces continued on Saturday a wide-scale military attack in Nablus, northern Gaza Strip, for the third day in a row.
Eyewitnesses said the situation in the city was getting worse, especially because the curfew imposed three days ago was still on, leaving the Palestinians with little food as the aggression took them by suprise.
Although paramedics were able to reach some families and provide them with food, many others were suffering.
Eyewitnesses said Israeli violence was increasing and the Israeli Army was blowing up the entrances of buildings and shops in the old town, claiming they were looking for wanted Palestinians.
Israeli forces also continued to surround the city’s hospitals and were checking the identification cards of Palestinians that reach them.
According to medical sources in Nablus, a Palestinian was shot in the head three times by an Israeli soldier, and one bullet went through his skull. He is is a very critical condition.
Even paramedics and journalists did not escape the Israeli violence. Paramedics were prevented from reaching the injured and trapped sick people and were targeted by Israeli bullets and gas bombs.
Meanwhile, journalists were attacked and prevented from covering the aggression that led to the injury of 35 Palestinians and the arrest of around 15 others.
Israel claims that the invasion of Nablus aims to arrest a unit of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, Fatah’s military wing, which was planning to attack the Israeli Army.
Most of the wanted Palestinians handed their weapons to the Palestinian Authority and announced they would comply with its decision to freeze their operations. However Israel arrested a number of them.
Sources from the Palestinian Presidency said Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad canceled a scheduled visit to Cairo on Sunday to monitor developments of the Israeli aggression in Nablus.
A source said the aggression aimed to destroy the Palestinian government, not the security plan that was applied in the city by the Palestinian Authority.