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By Awad Rjoob and Betul Yilmaz
RAMALLAH, Palestine / ISTANBUL (AA) - One Palestinian was killed by Israeli army fire, and three others were injured in an attack by illegal settlers in the occupied West Bank, medics said on Thursday.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement that a 20-year-old man was killed by Israeli gunfire in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, late Wednesday.
Witnesses told Anadolu that he was killed during clashes between army forces and locals after Israeli troops raided the town.
Several homes were stormed and searched by Israeli soldiers during the raid, they added.
The Israeli army conducted raids on several other towns in Jenin, Tulkarem, Ramallah, and Bethlehem on Wednesday, the official radio broadcaster Voice of Palestine reported.
Meanwhile, more than 15 illegal Israeli settlers attacked olive pickers in the town of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarem, on Thursday, leaving three Palestinians injured, witnesses told Anadolu.
The attackers raided the town more than once and hit the victims with sticks, they said.
The Israeli army started a large-scale military offensive in the Tubas governorate in the northern West Bank on Wednesday morning.
At least 60 Palestinians were detained, 10 injured, and dozens of families forcibly displaced during the raid in the governorate, according to reports from the Palestinian Prisoners Society and the Red Cross.
The latest casualty brought the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army and illegal settlers in the West Bank to 1,083 since the start of Tel Aviv’s genocidal war in October 2023. Nearly 11,000 people were injured and more than 20,500 arrested in the occupied territory.
In a landmark opinion last July, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory illegal and called for the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.