Palestinian killed by Israeli occupation forces west of Ramallah

OCCUPIED PALESTINE, Jan. 21 (YPA) – A Palestinian was killed by Israeli occupation forces gunfire, west of Ramallah in the middle of the occupied West Bank.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, a Palestinian identified as Tariq Odeh Maali, 42, was shot and killed this morning by Israeli occupation forces near the town of Kufr Nimeh, west of Ramallah.

It said that it was informed by the Civil Affairs Authority, which liaisons with Israel, of the death of the Palestinian man, whose body was taken by the army.

The Zionist media claimed that the young man was shot while trying to stab a settler with a screwdriver near the settlement of Beit El in Ramallah.

With the killing of Maali, a total of 18 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the start of the year, four of them children.

E.M