(Ramallah) A Palestinian was killed by the IDF on Friday in clashes in the northern occupied West Bank during a rally against Israeli settlement, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement.
A citizen who was “seriously wounded with live ammunition in the head” during clashes with Israeli forces in the village of Beita succumbed to his injuries at Rafidia hospital in Nablus where he was admitted, the ministry said. Palestinian.
According to the official Palestinian agency Wafa, Jamil Abou Ayyash, 31, was from the village of Beita, the scene for several months of demonstrations against an Israeli settlement that has been established on its outskirts.
Asked by AFP, the Israeli army reported a “violent riot” which broke out south of Nablus, during which “hundreds of Palestinians threw burning tires and stones” at the forces of Nablus. security.
They “retaliated with riot dispersal means in order to restore order,” the IDF said, adding that it was aware of reports that a Palestinian had been killed.
On Fridays, a weekly day of rest, many gatherings take place in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 by the Hebrew state, to protest against the expansion of Israeli settlements, deemed illegal by international law.
In Beita, gatherings frequently degenerate into clashes with the Israeli army and have already claimed several lives.
About 475,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank, home to more than 2.8 million Palestinians.