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An elderly man identified as Anan Shawkat Innab, 66, died last night of suffocation after inhaling teargas fired by the Israeli soldiers during their assault on Nablus earlier in the day raising the number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli assault to 11.

The Ministry of Health said Innab suffered from suffocation after inhaling teargas and was rushed to hospital in Nablus where he was pronounced dead in the evening.

The Israeli assault on the old city of Nablus yesterday resulted in the shooting and killing of 10 Palestinians, one of them 72 years of age, another 61, and a 16-year-old child, and more than 100 injuries, some of them critical to very critical.

With Innab’s death, a total of 60 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank since the start of the year, including 11 minors, one woman and three elderly men.