Israeli forces raid Aida refugee camp, confrontations erupt

Israeli occupation forces raided Wednesday afternoon, Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem. Local sources said that some 50 Israeli soldiers raided the camp through its main entrance, fired live and metal-coated bullets and threw tear gas bombs toward the Palestinians, following confrontations erupted with the Palestinian youths in the camp. Eyewitnesses said that a young Palestinian was hit with a metal-coated bullet and was transferred to a hospital, while several others suffered suffocation due to gas inhalation. The source added that the raid came in response to the hole that some Palestinians opened at the bottom of the Segregation Wall in Rachel's Tomb area in northern Bethlehem. Israeli media outlets said that one soldier was hit by a stone and sustained lightly injuries and was treated on site. They also said that the security forces used crowd-control measures to disperse the confrontation. Confrontations lasted for several hours before the Israeli forces withdrew at night.