Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian In Latest West Bank Raid

Israeli forces have killed a young Palestinian man during a raid on the northern occupied West Bank governorate of Tubas.

The Palestinian Health Ministry on Wednesday identified the man as Younis Ghassan Tayeh, and said he had been killed after being shot in the chest in the al-Faraa refugee camp.

His family said he was 20 years old. Tayeh’s uncle, Mohammed Hassan Tayeh said that the shooting was unprovoked, and that his nephew had been in an open area, exposed to the soldiers when he was shot by a sniper.

“Younis was at home, he heard that they raided his uncle’s house, so he went down with a group of young people to see.

“There were light confrontations, rocks being throw.

"A sniper in one of the homes targeted him with a bullet to the neck and one to the chest.”

Israel’s 55-year-long military rule over the occupied West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem and the blockaded Gaza Strip, where some five million Palestinians live, has been described as the longest occupation in modern history.

Under Israeli occupation, Palestinians face land theft, forcible transfer, sweeping movement restrictions, denial of residency rights, arbitrary imprisonment and daily killings, among other issues.

Israeli forces have carried out more than 2,200 raids and arrest operations in the occupied West Bank since the start of the year, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).