Baqa al-Gharbiyye: 16-Year-Old Fatally Wounded by Gunfire

The violence in the Arab sector. A 16-year-old was shot and fatally wounded in an incident in Baqa al-Gharbiyye.

MDA paramedics Eyal Drori and Pavel Shakurtov said: "We saw the wounded man lying unconscious without a pulse and without breathing and suffering from a penetrating injury to his body. We immediately started performing advanced resuscitation operations that included massages, respirations and giving medication and evacuated him in an MDA intensive care vehicle to the hospital when he was in critical condition while continuing the resuscitation operations."

The police said: "The police have started searches for the perpetrators of the crime, alongside the collection of findings at the scene by the investigators of the forensic department as part of an investigation that has been opened. The background of the incident is criminal."

Since the beginning of 2023 and the establishment of the government, 235 Arabs have lost their lives in circumstances related to violence and crime, of which 225 are citizens, 10 are non-citizens, more than twice the number of those murdered last year.