zionist forces shoot dead Palestinian in Nablus

A Palestinian man has been shot dead by Israeli troops at a junction in the Occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

Israeli police said on Thursday that the troops opened fire on the man after he attacked a bus stop with fireworks at Tapuah Junction, south of Nablus.

On November 3, Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian man in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron). The victim, who was shot in the foot, was transported to a nearby hospital to receive medical treatment.

On October 30, Israeli troops fatally shot a 22-year-old Palestinian man, identified as Ahmad Tazazaa, during a raid in the northern West Bank city of Qabatiya.

On October 22, clashes broke out between scores of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, situated 12 kilometers west of the city of Ramallah, over the killing of a Palestinian man, named Yusef Ahmed Radaida.

Israeli soldiers shot dead Radaida on October 17, when the Palestinian man crashed a tractor through the perimeter fence of an Israeli military camp in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.

According to Palestinian rights groups, over a dozen Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the first half of 2013. Israeli troops also seized nearly 1,800 Palestinians, including women and children, during the same period.