The Ramallah-based Palestinian well being ministry mentioned that Israeli forces killed a person within the northern occupied West Financial institution on Friday.
“Bahaa Abdel-Rahman Rashid (38 years outdated) was killed by Israeli hearth within the city of Odala, south of Nablus,” the well being ministry mentioned in a press release.
Shortly earlier than, the Palestinian Purple Crescent mentioned its groups dealt with the case of a person “who suffered a vital head harm throughout clashes within the city of Odala close to Nablus, and CPR is at present being carried out on him”.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli navy mentioned troopers working within the Odala space opened hearth and hit one particular person after “a violent confrontation occurred wherein terrorists hurled rocks” within the troops’ route.
Witness and Odala resident Muhammad al-Kharouf instructed AFP that Israeli troops have been patrolling in Odala and threw tear fuel canisters at males who have been exiting the native mosque for Friday prayer.
Rashid was killed by reside hearth within the clashes that adopted, added Kharouf, who had been contained in the mosque with him.
The Israeli navy mentioned Friday it had accomplished a two-week counter-terrorism operation within the northern West Financial institution throughout which it killed six militants, and questioned dozens of suspects.
It instructed AFP that Rashid was not among the many six militants killed over the previous two weeks.
Dozens of males together with Rashid’s father gathered on the close by metropolis of Nablus’ Rafidia hospital to bid him goodbye on Friday, an AFP journalist reported.
Israel has occupied the West Financial institution since 1967 and violence within the territory has soared since Hamas’s October 2023 assault on Israel triggered the Gaza battle.
It has not ceased regardless of the delicate truce between Israel and Hamas that got here into impact in October.
Israeli troops or settlers have killed greater than 1,000 Palestinians, a lot of them militants, but in addition scores of civilians, within the West Financial institution for the reason that begin of the Gaza battle, in accordance with an AFP tally based mostly on Palestinian well being ministry figures.
A minimum of 44 Israelis, together with each troopers and civilians, have been killed in Palestinian assaults or Israeli navy operations, in accordance with official Israeli figures.