AP — The Israeli army killed a 21-year-old Palestinian militant on Wednesday during an arrest raid in the West Bank, Palestinian health officials said. A Palestinian assailant stabbed and wounded an Israeli before he was shot and killed at a settlement in the territory’s south, Israel said.
The violence was the latest in a surge in attacks in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that Ahmed Abu Junaid died several hours after he was struck in the head by a bullet during an Israeli incursion into the hardscrabble Balata refugee camp in the city of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
The Israeli army reported several arrest raids across the West Bank early Wednesday. In the Balata refugee camp, a gunfight erupted between Palestinian militants and Israeli security forces, the army said, acknowledging that a Palestinian was hit.
Palestinian health officials said that Israeli special forces surrounded a house in the congested camp during the arrest operation and unleashed live fire, tear gas and stun grenades at a crowd of young men.
