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JENIN (Ma’an) – Israeli forces shot dead a young Palestinian man in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank early Wednesday morning, Palestinian security sources say.

Izz al-Din Walid Bani Gharra, 21, was shot in the chest during clashes with Israeli forces who raided the camp at dawn. He was evacuated to the public hospital in Jenin where he died shortly after, sources told Ma'an.

An Israeli army spokesperson did not have information on the incident and an Israeli border police spokesperson did not immediately respond for comment.

Gharra is the twelfth Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza since the start of 2015, according to UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, with over 900 injured, not including injuries resulting from settler violence.

One Israeli has been killed in the same time period.

Search and arrest raids are regular practice by Israeli forces, who have conducted a weekly average of 86 raids this year, up from 75 a week in 2015, according to a May report by UN Special Coordinator (UNSCO).

Such raids often result in what rights groups argue is excessive use of force by Israeli forces against locals who often throw rocks and bottles at the forces.
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by IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, shot and killed one Palestinian, during clashes that took place after the soldiers stormed homes and detained several residents.

Medical sources in Jenin said the soldiers fired several rounds of live ammunition at Ezzeddin Bani Ghafrra, in his twenties, directly hitting him in the chest causing instant death.

The soldiers also fired rounds of live ammunition, gas bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets, in addition to several flares, during clashes that took place with local youths.

Many Palestinians also suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation after the soldiers fired gas bombs into their homes.

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Palestinian killed by apparent Israeli fire in West Bank refugee camp

Border police spokesman says troops were in Jenin as part of a predawn operation, when they saw a Palestinian preparing to throw a pipe bomb at them and shot him.

By Dan Williams and Ali Samoudi for Haaretz

REUTERS - Israeli forces killed a member of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, witnesses and medics said.

A spokesman for Israel's paramilitary border police said its troops were in Jenin as part of a predawn operation against suspected militants, when they saw a Palestinian preparing to throw a pipe bomb at them and shot him.

"He was shot by a unit providing covering fire for the unit that he was about to attack," the spokesman said.

Jenin residents and hospital officials said the 23-year-old Palestinian was shot in the back. They said there were no wider confrontations at the time with the Israeli troops.

Hamas, which has a limited presence in the West Bank though it exercises de facto control over the other Palestinian territory of Gaza, claimed the dead Palestinian as a member.

On a Hamas website, the group said he was killed after coming out of a mosque after prayers there.

The Israeli border police spokesman said the Jenin raid was not coordinated in advance with the security forces of U.S.-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, which operate in parallel in West Bank cities.
By Dan Williams and Ali Samoudi