The Israel Defense Forces indicates that troops accidentally shot a US activist in the leg during a protest in the West Bank earlier in the day.
Troops “used riot dispersal means and fired live rounds in the air to disperse” a “gathering” in the Beita area, an IDF spokesperson says.
“Shortly after, a report was received regarding a foreign national who was accidentally injured by the riot dispersal means and was evacuated to the hospital,” the military statement says.
The activist, who goes by Amado Sison, is from New Jersey and traveled to the West Bank earlier this week, he said.
Sison, who was shot in the right thigh, is in stable condition at a hospital in Nablus.
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