Masafer Yatta: Palestinian vehicle flips as chased, shot at by Israel troops

Israeli troops shot at a vehicle carrying Palestinian workers in the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta area on Saturday, in an incident that left six Palestinians wounded, local sources said.

Activist Rateb Jabour said the Israelis caused the vehicle to flip as they chased and fired at it.

One Palestinian was shot in the foot, with the five other workers in the vehicle left lightly wounded, according to Jabour.

The six Palestinians were transported to hospital.

Masafer Yatta is an expulsion-threatened Palestinian area near Hebron which the Israeli army has designated as a firing zone.

Israel's Supreme Court in May upheld the military's position, greenlighting the destruction of homes and forcible ejection of over 1,000 people from 12 villages.

The court said Palestinians did not reside permanently in Masafer Yatta when the military claimed it four decades ago.

But locals and Israeli rights groups reject this, saying they have been there even before Israel's 1967 capture of the West Bank.

Palestinian residents are refusing to leave Masafer Yatta, hoping their resilience and international pressure will save them from expulsion by Israel.

Israeli soldiers and settlers commonly use violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

Veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead by Israeli forces on 11 May as she covered a military raid in Jenin refugee camp.