Israeli troopers withdraw from devastated occupied area

Israeli troopers withdrew from al-Fawwar refugee camp overnight Tuesday after being deployed in the camp for nearly 24 hours, in a massive military onslaught that left a Palestinian teenager killed and 45 others injured by Israeli fire.

Large numbers of Israeli troops from three army units surrounded the camp around dawn on Tuesday, when they began ransacking homes, interrogating residents in the streets, and positioned snipers on the rooftops of Palestinian homes.

Local youth reacted to the forces by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, sparking clashes with the invading troopers who fired live gunshots, tear gas, and rubber-coated steel bullets at the youth.

UN medical sources said that they opened a makeshift medical clinic in the camp to compensate for the shortage of medical supplies of the clinic in the camp, adding that "many injured Palestinians were seen lying in the streets.”

Muhammad Abu Hashhash, 17, died on Tuesday afternoon after being shot by Israeli forces with live ammunition in the heart earlier that day.