WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist troops have shot dead a Palestinian man in the West Bank during a protest against settlement expansion, the Palestinian health ministry said.
The victim was killed after being hit in the head by live fire on Friday, the ministry said, in the flashpoint town of Beita, a scene of regular demonstrations against Zionist settlement expansion.
A family member identified the dead man as Mohammed Ali Khabisa, 27.
He was taken to hospital in the northern West Bank city of Nablus where he died shortly afterward, the ministry said.
Another eight Palestinians were wounded by rubber-coated bullets, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Palestinian Detainee
Stops Medication

For the past week, Palestinian prisoner Amin Shweiki, 61, has refused to take his insulin injections in protest against his months-long imprisonment without trial or formal charges.
Zionist troops arrested a diabetic Amin on May 17 from his home under the administrative detention law, as part of a campaign of arrests in the city following protests against the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Amin, a UK graduate in civil engineering, is one of the 520 Palestinian prisoners held under the so-called ‘administrative detention’, a policy that allows Zionist troops and military to imprison Palestinians indefinitely, on “secret information”, without presenting them with formal charges or allowing them to stand trial – laws that originate from the British occupation of Palestine.
A day before his expected release on September 16, a Zionist court extended Amin’s detention order for an additional four months, prompting him to declare a strike in the occupied territory’s southern Naqab prison where he is being held.
“Either I am released, or I die here,” he told his wife and lawyer.
Meanwhile, Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike in Zionist jail, Alaa Al-Araj, was transferred to hospital on Thursday after his health deteriorated, the Palestinian Information Center reported his wife as saying.
Al-Araj has been held under administrative detention – without charge or trial – in the occupying regime’s jails since 30 June and he has been on an open hunger strike against his illegal detention for 46 days. During that time, he lost 30 kilograms and now suffers serious health problems.
He has previously been detained by occupying troops and has served a total of five years in Zionist jails.
There are currently some 4,500 Palestinians in the Zionist regime’s prisons, 41 of whom are women, 160 children and 360 ‘administrative detainees’, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.
Former Palestinian prisoner Hussein Masalmah died, seven months after being released from Zionist custody due to illness related to leukaemia, with Palestinian officials accusing Zionist regime authorities of “medical negligence” over his case.
Masalmah, 39, died on Thursday in a hospital in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.