An-Najah News - According to witnesses and Israeli reports Israeli occupation forces shot and injured a deaf elderly Palestinian man at Qalandia checkpoint.

Israeli occupation guards opened fire at the old Palestinian in his 60s as he walked the car lane of the checkpoint located between Jerusalem and Ramallah injuring him in the leg.

Israeli police said in a statement that security guards at the checkpoint saw a man walking through the car lane and when they called on him to stop he kept on walking before shooting him in the leg after suspecting he had a knife.

It turned out that the man was deaf and that he was not in possession of a knife, said the occupation police spokesman