Ramallah: Israeli occupation troops shot dead a 24-year-old Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinian health officials said.
The occupation military said it was checking reports of a Palestinian killed in a village near the West Bank city of Qalqilya.
Tensions in the region have risen since US President Donald Trump reversed decades of US policy on December 6 by recognising occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Since then, there have been frequent clashes in which at least between Palestinians and Israeli forces in the West Bank and along the Israel-Gaza border.
Palestinians want mostly Arab East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state. Israel took East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in a move that has no international recognition.
It sees the entire city as its eternal, indivisible capital.
A total of 18 Palestinians and one Israeli have been killed in the flare-up since Trump’s announcement, though analysts say neither Israel nor the Palestinians are interested in a major escalation.
