Palestinian man killed during Israeli army raid in West Bank
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man during an army raid Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said, while the Israeli army confirmed troops opened fire during an operation in the area targeting a ‘suspect.’
The ministry charged that the man killed in the northern Jenin area was a civilian, who was named as Mahmoud Al-saadi, 19, by the city’s deputy governor Kamal Abu al-rub.
“A civilian succumbed to critical wounds after he was hit by live occupation (Israeli) bullets in
the abdomen, in Jenin,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that two others were seriously wounded.
The Israeli army said it had operated in Wadi Bruqin, near Jenin, seeking to arrest a wanted ‘terror operative’ whom it named as Ratib al-bali.
“During the activity, shots were fired and explosive devices were hurled at the soldiers,” it said.
“The soldiers responded with live fire toward suspects who fired at them.
“A hit was identified,” the army said, without confirming a
specific fatality.
The army added that nine other suspects were arrested in raids across the West Bank early on Monday.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the Jenin area clash broke out as the army ‘besieged a house’.
After the shooting, a large crowd massed around Saadi’s body, which was wrapped in white cloth.
Violence has flared this year in the West Bank, where the Israeli army has launched near-daily raids since a series of attacks in
Israel that killed several civilians.