Dozens of Palestinian students have sustained gunshot wounds and several others suffered tear gas inhalation when Israeli military forces stormed a school in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Israeli troops raided the high school in the town of Tuqu’, located 12 kilometers southeast of Bethlehem, on Sunday, and fired tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian students.
Sources also confirmed that Israeli forces briefly detained the school’s principal and other staff members.
Israeli forces forced the students and staff members to evacuate the premises, and then took control of the high school and shut it down.
They later sealed off the two main entrances to the town.