NUR SHAMS: An Al Jazeera journalist was shot and injured while covering a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank that was dispersed by Israeli soldiers, AFP journalists witnessed on Tuesday.

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 was evacuated in early 2025 during an ongoing Israeli military operation in 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.

When asked for comment by AFP, the Israeli military said it was looking into the incident.

"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 were created in the Palestinian territories and in neighboring Arab countries for Palestinians who fled or were expelled from what is now Israel at the time of the country's creation in 1948.

"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.

It says its months-long operation in the territory's north is aimed at cracking down on several camps that are strongholds of Palestinian armed groups.

The UN humanitarian agency OCHA says that nearly 40,000 Palestinians were displaced by the Israeli operation in the refugee camps of the northern West Bank.

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Al Jazeera journalist shot and injured at West Bank protest