RAMALLAH (Dispatches) –
Zionist troops have killed a young Palestinian man during a raid on the northern occupied West Bank governorate of Tubas.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the man as Younis Ghassan Tayeh, and said he had been killed after being shot in the chest on Wednesday in the al-Faraa refugee camp, a few kilometers south of Tubas city.
His family told Al Jazeera that the youth was 20 years old.
Zionist troops had raided the refugee camp at 6:00am (03:00GMT) in the latest of what have become daily incursions by the army across the occupied West Bank.
Tayeh’s uncle, Mohammed Hassan Tayeh said that the shooting was unprovoked, and that his nephew had been “in an open area, exposed to the soldiers” when he was shot by a sniper.
“Younis was at home, he heard that they raided his uncle’s house, so he went down with a group of young people to see,” Mohammed told Al Jazeera, who explained that he was approximately 100 meters (328 feet) away when his nephew was shot.
“There were light confrontations, rocks being thrown,” Mohammed added. “A sniper in one of the homes targeted him with a bullet to the neck and one to the chest.”
“Everyone is a target, since the occupation kills unarmed human beings, who do not pose any kind of threat.”
An Israeli army statement said that Palestinians had thrown an improvised explosive device and fired at soldiers.
Tayeh’s killing was announced about an hour after the army entered, while at least two other men from Tubas were arrested and their homes raided.
Khaled Mansour, a local political activist and resident of al-Fa’ra refugee camp, told Al Jazeera there were “no armed confrontations during the raid”.
“The army came with large forces and raided several homes in search of “wanted” persons,” he said.
A day-long strike in protest at the killing was called on Wednesday by local political parties.
At least 21 Palestinians were arrested by the occupying regime’s army overnight on Wednesday, including from Nablus, Ramallah, Al-Khalil and Al-Quds, according to prisoners groups.
The developments came a day after Zionist troops shot and killed a Palestinian man during a large military raid on the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the man as 29-year-old Mohammad Sabaaneh.
Several Palestinians were also injured during the raid, one of them in critical condition. The injured Palestinians included a girl who was hit in her jaw, in addition to two young men with leg injuries and another with shrapnel in his head.