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Ramallah, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian health ministry said Friday that a man had died after he was shot dead during an arrest raid near Nablus in the West Bank occupied by Israeli forces.
Salah Sawafta, 58, was in critical condition after a bullet hit him in the head with a tubus and died hours later, the ministry said.
Sawafta said he was returning home after attending dawn prayers at the village mosque because Israeli forces were active in the area, his brother Jihad said.
"There have been clashes with young people in the area, and Salah was shot in the head by a sniper after buying his bag of bread at the grocery store and continuing home," he said. Told.
Israeli forces entered two of his villages to arrest Palestinians suspected of participating in or planning attacks on Israeli targets. Stated. In Tubas, the Palestinians threw Molotov his cocktail and opened fire on the soldiers, who opened fire. "An attack has been confirmed," the military said without elaborating.
Israeli forces carry out raids in the West Bank, including areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority, and arrest wanted Palestinians on an almost daily basis. Overnight operations have featured clashes with stone-throwing Palestinians and sometimes gunmen.
Israel occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East War and built dozens of settlements that became home to about half a million Jewish settlers.
Palestinians want the West Bank, home to about three million Palestinians under Israeli military rule, to form a major part of their future state.
