Military officials say an Israeli soldier has shot and killed a Palestinian man who tried to cross a barrier in the northern occupied West Bank and enter Israel.
Israeli soldiers shot at a man they said was trying to cross the security fence near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, the military said on Sunday.
In accordance with procedure, the force fired at him.” He was taken to a hospital for treatment.”
It was confirmed by the Palestinian Health Ministry that Mahmud Eram had died.
An Israeli hospital official confirmed to AFP that the wounded Palestinian had died.
An Israeli military checkpoint near the town of Jabara is where Eram was killed, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency. He was a native of Khan Younis, a town in the south of Gaza.
A 19-year-old Palestinian without an Israeli entry permit stabbed a police officer outside the Old City before being shot at the scene, according to a statement from the Jerusalem Police Department.
According to police, the officer was taken to the hospital in a stable condition, with medics reporting that the teen had also made a full recovery.
Israeli police have also arrested two Palestinians suspected of killing three people in a stabbing attack in the settlement of Elad near Tel Aviv last week, police said on Sunday, per the Jerusalem Post.
Israeli police have detained two Palestinians, Asad Yussif al-Rifai, 19, and Subhy Imad Sbeihat, 20, in a quarry near Elad after an extensive search.
According to eyewitnesses, Israeli soldiers in military vehicles raided the suspects’ house in Rummaneh village, west of Jenin.
