Israeli forces kill Palestinian youth over alleged shooting attempt in West Bank
Israeli forces have shot and martyred a young Palestinian man over an alleged shooting attempt in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, amid occupying regime’s new round of violence resulting in significant escalations across the occupied territories.
The Israeli military, in a statement released before midnight on Saturday, alleged that a Palestinian man armed with a handgun was killed near the illegal Kedumim settlement.
Karam Ali Ahmad Salman, 18, was martyred by "the Israeli occupation near the settlement of Kedumim," the Palestinian health ministry reported.
According to local Israeli officials, he was spotted on the settlement’s surveillance cameras approaching Kedumim’s northern neighborhood at around 11:50 p.m. local time (2150 GMT).
The security coordinator for the settlement and another guard reached the scene and purportedly spotted that the Palestinian man had pulled out a handgun.
“The guard then engaged him and shot at him, and killed him,” the settlement said in a statement to residents.
There were no reports of Israeli injuries in the purported incident.
Earlier on Saturday, two illegal settlers were wounded in a shooting attack in occupied East al-Quds, a day after seven people were killed in an attack near a synagogue on the outskirts of the city.
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