A US citizen has told AFP that he was shot by Israeli forces and wounded in the leg during a protest against settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian medics reported that a foreign activist was shot during the demonstration in the town of Beita, while the Israeli military said it was looking into the incident.

The activist, who asked to use a pseudonym, Amado Sison, for security concerns, said he joined the rally to help defend Palestinians.

“There was a demonstration and we were there to film, to make sure we have eyes on the [Israeli] occupation army,” he told AFP from a hospital bed in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

“At one point we ran away … and they shot me in the leg.”

Israeli troops were “firing tear gas at us, live rounds”, Sison added.

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