A Palestinian was killed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Monday morning, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
The Israeli army said it was conducting an operation in the northern West Bank city of Nablus in preparation for demolishing the home of a suspect in an armed attack that killed two Israelis in the area in February.
“During the operation, suspects threw stones and shot at soldiers who responded with live ammunition,” the army said in a statement, adding that one person was hit.
According to a statement from the Palestinian Health Ministry, “Saleh Mohamed Sabra, 22, was killed by live ammunition in an Israeli attack in Nablus” and another Palestinian was wounded by bullets.
While calm has returned to Gaza after five days of clashes between Israel and Islamic Jihad, clashes continue in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
At least 150 Palestinians, 20 Israelis, one Ukrainian and one Italian have been killed in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the beginning of the year, according to an AFP tally compiled from official Israeli and Palestinian sources.
These statistics include combatants and civilians, including minors, on the Palestinian side and mostly civilians, including minors, and three members of the Arab minority on the Israeli side.
In addition, on Monday Palestinians are organizing demonstrations to commemorate the Nakba, or “disaster,” 75 years after the founding of the State of Israel, which forced more than 700,000 of them to emigrate.