NABLUS: The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Monday (Aug 12), while the Israeli military reported it had "neutralised" an attacker who fired at an Israeli civilian.
An Israeli soldier mans a watchtower near the entrance to the Palestinian town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank , on Jan 2, 2024. NABLUS: The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Monday , while the Israeli military reported it had"neutralised" an attacker who fired at an Israeli civilian.
The Israeli military said in a statement that the alleged attacker had"fired at an Israeli civilian who was in the city" of Qalqilya, despite Israel forbidding Israelis from visiting built-up Palestinian areas." conducted a pursuit after the terrorist and neutralised him adjacent to Qalqilya," it added.
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, sparked by the unprecedented Hamas attack on Oct 7, 2023, violence has flared in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 and separated geographically from Gaza by Israeli territory.
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