An Israeli security member stands guard during a hearing for four Palestinian suspects, after a confrontation with a group of Israeli settlers left a 19-year-old Palestinian dead, at an Israeli military court, near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Aug. 10, 2023. (Credit: Ammar Awad/Reuters)
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank — Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man during an operation in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The Israeli military said soldiers operating in the city of Tulkarm fired at suspects who shot at them, hurled explosives and rocks and blocked roads, and that "hits were identified." It said a number of military vehicles were damaged, but no injuries to the forces were reported.Director of the Thabet Thabet Government Hospital in Tulkarm, doctor Amin Khader, told Palestine TV that the Palestinian man who died sustained a gunshot wound in the chest and that at least eight people were wounded.
The Fatah party, which dominates the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, identified the dead man as Mahmoud Jarrad. It said he was a member but it did not claim him as a fighter.
Violence in the occupied West Bank has worsened over the past 15 months amid stepped-up Israeli raids, rampages by Jewish settlers on Palestinian villages and Palestinian street attacks.
A UN tally showed at least 196 Palestinians and 24 people in Israel have been killed in hostilities since January.
The West Bank is among territories Israel captured in a 1967 Middle East war where Palestinians have limited self-rule and which they want as the core of an independent state.
Israel subjects millions of Palestinians to military rule there and it has continued to build settlements, considered by most countries as illegal, which it disputes.
US-brokered peace talks aimed at establishing a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem collapsed in 2014 and show no sign of resuming.
Some 40,700 Palestinians are registered with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in two camps in the Tulkarm area. They are Palestinian refugees, or their descendants, who were forced out or fled their homes during the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation.
shot dead a Palestinian man during an operation in a refugee
camp in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the official
Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The Israeli military said soldiers operating in the city of Tulkarm fired at suspects who shot at them, hurled explosives and rocks and blocked roads, and that "hits were identified." It said a number of military vehicles were damaged, but no injuries to the forces were reported.Director of the Thabet Thabet Government Hospital in
Tulkarm, doctor Amin Khader, told Palestine TV that the
Palestinian man who died sustained a gunshot wound in the chest
and that at least eight people were wounded.The Fatah party, which dominates the Palestinian Authority
in the occupied West Bank, identified the dead man as...
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