NABLUS: A pro-Palestinian Italian activist was shot and seriously wounded by Israeli gunfire during a clash in the northern West Bank, medics and his movement said.
Palestinian security sources said Patrick Corsi, a 30-year-old member of the International Solidarity Movement, was shot during the weekly demonstration at Kafr Qaddum, west of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses said Corsi, who had participated in last week’s protest as well, had been documenting the event with a camera.
Palestinian medics said he was taken to a hospital in Ramallah.
An ISM statement said an Italian activist was “shot in the chest with .22 live ammunition” at the protest, and that his condition was serious but stable.
A Palestinian protester was shot in the hand and chest during the demonstration and was also in stable condition, ISM said.
An army spokesman described the event as a riot during which 100 Palestinians hurled rocks at troops and also burnt tyres.
After failing to disperse people with crowd-control means and “due to increased violence,” soldiers “fired small calibre rounds toward main masked instigators,” the spokesman said.
Palestinians demonstrate weekly in Kafr Qaddum against the expropriation of land by Israel.
Morocco jails dual French national on terror charges
RABAT: A French-Moroccan youth has been jailed for two years for “advocating terrorism” by flying what looked liked the black flag of the Islamic State group, a news website said yesterday.
Abdelmalik Al Makrini, 18, was on holiday in Morocco when he was arrested in August for flying IS flag.
The youth, who normally lives in northern France, disputed the claim that this flag was being used to rally people to the jihadist group, which has proclaimed an Islamic “caliphate” in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria.
His family pointed out that these flags are freely sold in France and carried during marches and sit-ins.
AFP
