According to the Israeli army, Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian who was allegedly running towards them with a knife at a bus terminal in the occupied West Bank, according to reports
According to an early inquiry, the man drove up to a junction near the Jewish hamlet of Ariel in a car, got out, and “armed with a knife, went toward the bus terminal where citizens and IDF troops were standing,” according to a statement issued on Friday by the Israeli Defense Forces.
The dead has been identified as Amir Atef Reyan by the Palestinian health ministry. According to the report, he died as a result of his wounds while living in Qarawet Bani Hassan, a community in Salfit in the West Bank.
Israeli troops, according to members of the Palestinian Red Crescent, blocked paramedics from reaching the young man and treating him before he was brought to a hospital.
The Palestinian man was photographed and videotaped lying face down at a junction near an Israeli settlement before being hauled away in an ambulance, according to images and videos posted online.
It was claimed by the Israeli army that it was pursuing anyone else was in the vehicle, which had escaped from the scene of the incident.
Since the United States-sponsored talks on the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel came to a halt in 2014, there has been periodic unrest in the West Bank.
Settler violence against Palestinians has escalated in recent weeks, following the shooting death of a Jewish settler by a Palestinian gunman in the northern West Bank’s Hebron district.
Immediately following the assassination, a wave of settler attacks occurred, in which at least four Palestinians were injured, and a series of confrontations occurred between Palestinians and Israeli forces.
Israel seized control of the West Bank in 1967, which the Palestinians hope to be the primary component of their eventual state. Over 130 settlements dot the occupied territory, which is also home to more than 2.5 million Palestinians. Approximately 600,000 Jewish settlers live in more than 130 settlements dot the occupied territory.
The Palestinians and the rest of the international community view the expansion of Israeli settlements as a violation of international law that endangers the possibility of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
