The Palestinian well being ministry says the person, recognized as Amir Atef Reyan from Qarawet Bani Hassan, died from his wounds.
Israeli troops have shot useless a Palestinian who was allegedly operating in the direction of them with a knife at a bus station within the occupied West Financial institution, the military stated.
Citing an preliminary investigation, it stated in an announcement on Friday that the person had arrived at a junction close to the Jewish settlement of Ariel in a automotive, acquired out and “armed with a knife, ran towards the bus station the place civilians and IDF troopers have been standing”.
The Palestinian well being ministry recognized the deceased as Amir Atef Reyan. It stated he died from his wounds as a resident of Qarawet Bani Hassan, a village in Salfit within the West Financial institution.
Members of the Palestinian Pink Crescent stated the Israeli forces prevented their paramedics from reaching the younger man to deal with him earlier than he was transferred to a hospital.
Images and movies printed on-line confirmed the Palestinian man mendacity face down at a junction close to an Israeli settlement earlier than being taken away in an ambulance.
The Israeli military stated it was pursuing whoever else was within the automobile, which had fled the scene.
The West Financial institution has seen sporadic violence since United States-sponsored talks on founding a Palestinian state alongside Israel stalled in 2014.
Settler violence towards Palestinians has intensified in latest weeks after a Jewish settler was shot useless by a Palestinian gunman within the northern components of the West Financial institution.
The killing ignited a string of settler assaults that left not less than 4 Palestinians wounded and sparked a collection of confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli forces.
Israel in 1967 captured the West Financial institution, which the Palestinians need to kind the principle a part of their future state. About 600,000 Jewish settlers stay in additional than 130 settlements scattered throughout the occupied territory, which can also be residence to greater than 2.5 million Palestinians.
The Palestinians and the broader worldwide group contemplate the rising Israeli settlements a violation of worldwide legislation that threatens a two-state resolution to the battle.