Abdullah Sami Qalalweh, 26, was shot and killed near the town of Huwara, south of Nablus, officials said.
Israeli forces killed an unarmed Palestinian man in the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the Israeli military described as an “attack” on soldiers at a military outpost.
Abdullah Sami Qalalweh, 26, was killed on Friday evening by “bullets of the Israeli occupation near the town of Huwar, south of Nablus,” the Palestinian ministry said in a statement.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA quoted Ahmad Jibril, a spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent, as saying the victim died just minutes after being critically wounded by Israeli forces.
Qalalweh’s death brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces this year to 36, including eight children and an elderly woman, WAFA reported. Six Israeli civilians, including a child, and one Ukrainian civilian were killed in the same period in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Israeli army said its forces “fired live fire into the air” after the suspect “walked towards a military outpost near” the military base in the Huwar area. It said Qalalweh “attempted to attack one of the soldiers” and that “another soldier who was at the scene fired at the suspect and hit him.”
The military confirmed that Qalalweh was unarmed.
Earlier on Friday, United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk called on Israel “to ensure that all operations by its security forces in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are conducted in full respect of international human rights law.”
He emphasized compliance with the “rules governing the use of force in law enforcement operations,” according to a statement from his office.
“The use of firearms is permitted only as a last resort, when there is an immediate threat to life or serious injury.”
The recent surge in killings by Israeli forces comes as part of intensified nighttime raids, particularly in the northern occupied cities of Jenin and Nablus, under the banner of crushing limited Palestinian armed resistance.
Civilians who clashed with Israeli forces during raids and innocent bystanders were killed, as well as Palestinian fighters in targeted killings and during armed conflicts.