Zionist forces kill Palestinian at West Bank checkpoint near al-Quds

The Israeli regime’s Hebrew-language media outlets claimed that the yet unidentified Palestinian arrived on foot at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of al-Quds early Saturday morning while carrying an M16 automatic rifle and began firing at Israeli forces in the area before being shot dead at the scene.

A “security guard” and another man were reportedly slightly injured after being shot at the checkpoint.

Israeli police forces were rushed into the scene and the two injured were evacuated by medical personnel to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in West al-Quds for treatment.

Earlier on Friday, an Israeli woman that tried to stab the regime’s soldiers was shot and wounded in the northern West Bank in what officials were reportedly investigating as a possible attempted suicide.

The Israeli military claimed in a statement that the nearly 40-year-old woman approached the soldiers near the Tapuah Junction and tried to stab them.

“In response, the soldiers opened fire in her direction to remove the danger,” the military said.

The woman was wounded in her lower body and taken to a hospital in “moderate condition,” the regime’s Army Radio further claimed,  noting that no soldiers were injured in the incident.

According to the military report, the woman was “dressed as a Palestinian,” but did not elaborate.

The incidents came amid heightened tensions in the West Bank following a series of retaliatory Palestinian operations, and price tag attacks by extremist Zionist settlers.

Israeli settlers rampaged through several Palestinian towns in the West Bank on Tuesday night, torching cars, setting farmland on fire, and vandalizing homes, in scenes reminiscent of a pogrom earlier this year in the village of Huwwara.

On Wednesday, hundreds of settlers, many of them armed, descended on the town of Turmusaya, protected by Israeli soldiers. The settlers attacked Palestinian residents, destroyed their property, and shot deal a 27-year-old Palestinian man.

The riots broke out the day after four Israeli settlers were shot dead and another four wounded in a retaliatory attack by two Palestinian resistance fighters at a gas station outside of the illegal settlement of Eli in the occupied West Bank.

One of the resistance fighters was shot dead at the scene and Israeli forces later killed the second suspect near Nablus after he fled in a taxi, the Israeli military claimed.

The Palestinians were identified as Mohannad Faleh Shhadeh, 26, and Khaled Mostafa Sbah, 24, both from the village of Urif near Nablus.

The shooting came a day after at least six Palestinians were killed in Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank during a large-scale Israeli military incursion. At least 91 people were wounded during the nine-hour raid.

The confrontation saw the Israeli regime using helicopter gunships in the West Bank for the first time in decades, and Palestinian fighters detonating a large roadside bomb under an Israeli armored vehicle.