A 21-year-old Palestinian man was killed by Israeli forces within the occupied West Bank late Monday because the area noticed one other surge in latest violence.
The Palestinian Health Ministry stated that the sufferer, recognized as Zakaria al-Zaoul, was shot within the head within the city of Husan, west of Bethlehem. The official Palestinian news company Wafa reported that he was killed throughout clashes with the navy.
The Israeli navy claimed that al-Zaoul allegedly threw a firebomb at troops stationed alongside a West Bank freeway close to Husan. The troops responded with reside fireplace and confirmed successful, the military stated.
Israel and the Palestinians have been gripped by months of violence, centered primarily within the West Bank, the place at the least 126 Palestinians have been killed this yr.
Monday noticed one of many fiercest days of preventing between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed teams close to the northern West Bank metropolis of Jenin.
At least 5 Palestinians had been killed, together with a 15-year-old boy, and over 90 others had been wounded, Palestinian well being officers stated. Eight Israeli troopers had been additionally wounded, in keeping with the military.
The preventing noticed Israel use helicopter gunships within the West Bank for the primary time in a number of years whereas Palestinian armed teams attacked an Israeli armored automobile.
Israel has been staging near-nightly raids within the West Bank in response to Palestinian protests and violence, which has additionally surged.
At least 20 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian assaults up to now this yr.
Israel captured the West Bank, together with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, within the 1967 Mideast warfare. The Palestinians declare these territories as a part of their future unbiased state.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
