WEST BANK (Dispatches) – A Palestinian man was martyred during clashes with Zionist troops in the northern occupied West Bank early Monday, security and medical sources said.
The Palestinian sources identified the man as Jamil al-Kayyal, 31, saying he died as a result of bullet shots to his head following a clash in the Ras al-Ain area in the city of Nablus.
According to the occupying regime’s police, Zionist forces backed up by troops had arrested a suspect in Nablus.
Reuters referred to the Zionist assailants as the regime’s “paramilitary police said undercover forces.”
The agency claimed that the fatality was caused, when the troops confronted Palestinians, who were allegedly “hurling explosive devices” at the forces.
It also alleged that the skirmish erupted after the forces hunted down a “wanted” Palestinian.
The Palestinian resistance movement of the Islamic Jihad mourned the youth’s martyrdom in a statement, but did not identify him as one of its members.
Also on Monday, Zionist troops assaulted the al-Ain refugee camp in Nablus as well as the city of Bethlehem in the west-central part of the West Bank.
Zionist troops fired teargas canisters to disperse the Palestinians during the latter raid.
The developments come only two days after Zionist troops killed a young Palestinian and injured as many as 68 others, attacking the southern part of Nablus.
The regime occupied the West Bank in 1967 before starting to dot the Palestinian territory with illegal settlements and severely restricting the Palestinians’ freedom of movement there.
In another development, a Palestinian young man has sustained critical injuries following a physical assault while being detained by Zionist troops during a night raid in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Wafa news agency quoting local sources reported on Sunday that scores of Zionist troops at midnight broke into the house of Abdessalem Salhab in the village of Qilqis, south of Al-Khalil. They assaulted the family members, especially Ahmad, who was later taken away to an undisclosed location.
The family was later informed that Ahmad, in his 20s, had been moved in critical health condition to Soroka Medical Center in the southern occupied city of Beersheba.