Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian in West Bank
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories (AFP):
Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man in the West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said.
The army claimed the man had tried to carry out an attack.
The Palestinian statement said that Ahmed Yacoub Taha, 39, was “killed by occupation bullets near Salfit”.
The Israeli military said a “terrorist” had been “neutralised”, after reporting “an attempted car-ramming attack” near the Gitai Avissar junction in the Salfit area in the north of the occupied territory.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War, when it also seized east Jerusalem.
Violence in the territory since January has seen the deaths of 99 Palestinians, 19 Israelis, one Ukrainian and one Italian, according to an AFP count based on Israeli and Palestinian official sources.
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