Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian students demonstrating near a West Bank checkpoint, injuring seven people on Monday, medics say.
According to a Palestinian security official, three of the seven were wounded by live rounds and the others were hit by rubber bullets, AFP reported.
An official at a nearby hospital confirmed that seven people were wounded, some of them with live rounds, without providing further details.
The security official said the demonstrators, mostly students from nearby Birzeit University, were protesting Israel's settlement works in annexed East Jerusalem.'
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