Photo courtesy Al Jazeera
The demonstrators were protesting their displacement by Israel from the Nur Shams refugee camp on the edge of Tulkarem in the north of the Palestinian territory.
"Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi Yassin was shot in the leg by Israeli forces in the city of Tulkarem," Al Jazeera reported.
The journalist was evacuated by ambulance after being shot while working in the middle of a crowd of about 150 camp residents, AFP journalists reported.
"His condition is stable and we managed to control the bleeding," Palestinian Red Crescent Society paramedic Abdullah Nairat, who handled the medical evacuation, told AFP.
"A bullet entered his right leg from the outside, passed through, and hit his left thigh."
Nur Shams residents were demonstrating for the right to return to their homes inside the camp, which they were forced to abandon in early 2025 during an ongoing Israeli military assault that has devastated several refugee camps in the northern West Bank.
After gunshots rang out from inside Nur Shams, Yassin fell, AFP journalists reported. He was then carried to an ambulance.
Israeli soldiers then walked down from inside the camp and began to disperse the crowd, briefly detaining two demonstrators and a cameraman for Jordanian television channel Roya.
"It's one of the most basic rights we were given, to have the (refugee) camp after they displaced us in 1948," Noha Zait, a Nur Shams resident, told AFP before the demonstration was dispersed.
Refugee camps in the Palestinian territories and neighbouring Arab states were established for 700,000 Palestinians who were violently expelled by Zionist militias in 1948, when the militias carried out attacks and massacres that terrorised Palestinian communities and cleared the way for the creation of Israel. Palestinians refer to the coordinated campaign, which led to their violent displacement, as the "Nakba," or catastrophe.
"We must return to our homes, and not a single soldier should remain in the camp," added Zait, 56.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967.
Its months-long assault in the territory's north has displaced nearly 40,000 Palestinians from their refugee camps, according to the UN humanitarian agency OCHA.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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