WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s troops have shot and killed a young Palestinian man over an alleged retaliatory stabbing attempt in northern part of the occupied West Bank, amid tensions in the occupied territories over illegal settlement activities and planned eviction of Palestinian families from their ancestral homes.
The regime army alleged in statement that the man had arrived at a junction near the Jewish settlement of Ariel in a car, got out and “armed with a knife, ran toward the bus station” where settlers and Israeli forces were standing.”
Zionist troops opened fire at the Palestinian man, killing him, the statement added.
Photographs from the scene showed the Palestinian on the ground next to a bus stop full of Zionist troops.
He was taken to Petah Tikva’s Beilinson Medical Center in critical condition and was pronounced dead upon arrival.
Palestine’s official WAFA news agency said the Palestinian, identified as Abd al-Aziz Hekmat Mousa, was killed when the Zionist troops at a checkpoint in the town of Ya’bad, southwest of the city of Jenin, opened fire at the vehicle he was traveling in.
Zionist troops have on numerous occasions been caught on camera brutally killing Palestinians, with the videos going viral online and sparking international condemnation.
The Tel Aviv regime has been criticized for its extensive use of lethal force against and extrajudicial killing of Palestinians who do not pose an immediate threat to the occupation forces or to the Zionist settlers.

‘West Bank Poised For
Explosion’

Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas has told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Zionist raids and other acts of aggression have put the occupied West Bank on the brink of an “explosion.”
Abbas told the Russian president during a telephone conversation on Thursday that Zionist settlements, land confiscation, home demolitions and “settler terrorism” are becoming a casus belli for a new revolt in the West Bank, the official Wafa news agency reported.
“The continuation of these Israeli measures will lead to an explosion of the situation,” the Palestinian Authority head added.
He also rejected “economic and security steps” offered by Zionist regime officials, saying they are not “a substitute for the political track.”
The Palestinian leadership will have to take “key decisions” at an important session of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) expected to be held in the coming months, he said without elaboration.
Palestinian activists say the occupying regime tore down at least 69 Palestinian homes in the flashpoint Silwan neighborhood of East Al-Quds and issued orders for demolition of another 172 buildings during 2021.
Fakhri Abu Diab, a member of the Defense of Silwan Land Committee, said on Thursday that the demolition campaign by Zionist troops displaced 342 Palestinians, including a large number of children and women.
The implementation of the eviction orders could render 10,000 Palestinians homeless in the coming weeks or months. Diab said the massive displacement of Palestinians amounts to “ethnic cleansing.”
Forced displacement, or the unlawful transfer of civilians in the occupied territories, violates the Fourth Geneva Convention and constitutes a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The United Nations has reported a 21 percent increase in the number of Palestinian structures that were confiscated or destroyed this year.