RAMALLAH: Israeli army fire wounded two Palestinians on Tuesday during a raid in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

A hospital in the city received “a young man with a serious gunshot wound to the lower back and a 14-year-old with a live bullet wound to the upper thigh, in addition to numerous cases of suffocation, as a result of the (Israeli army) assault on Ramallah”, the ministry said.

The army raided the former headquarters of the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, seizing documents and furniture, according to journalists who witnessed and filmed the scene.

Israel had closed the organisation’s office in August 2022 along with six other Palestinian NGOs and civil society groups after designating them “terrorist organisations”. Photos and video footage on Tuesday showed Israeli soldiers moving furniture, office equipment, and folders out of the office and onto a trailer attached to a military vehicle.

The army also reaffixed its order for the organisation’s closure on the front door of the premises. Israeli forces were deployed in the neighbourhood for nearly four hours, fired tear gas and stun grenades toward a group of reporters, and wounded four of them, according to journalists and eyewitnesses. In a separate incident on Tuesday, four Palestinians from the same family were injured after settlers stormed their home in the village of Talfit, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, according to a medical source and a family member.

Youssef Abu Aisheh, 43, said that settlers knocked on his door presenting themselves as soldiers, then entered his home and assaulted him, his wife, and their seven children.

“They banged on the door violently and said they were soldiers, and when I opened the door I was shocked to find they were settlers wearing jeans, vests, and black masks, and carrying clubs,” he said. As a result of the assault, his daughter suffered a broken leg, his wife a deep head wound, while he and another daughter were bruised, Abu Aisheh said, adding that the Israeli police did not respond to his request for help.

Published in Dawn, October 14th, 2026