Palestinian killed by Israeli settler’s gunfire near Hebron

WEST BANK, Nov. 03 (YPA) – A young Palestinian man was shot and killed by an Israeli settler gunfire  at the northern entrance to Hebron early Monday morning.

Palestinian sources reported that Ahmad Rabhi al-Atrash was killed after being shot in the head with live ammunition fired directly at him by a colonist at the northern entrance to Hebron, near the bypass road.

Israeli occupation forces prevented Red Crescent paramedics who were present in the Ras al-Joura area near the bypass road from reaching the young man, leaving him to bleed to death on the ground.

After summoning his family to identify him, they took his body to an unknown location.

With the killing of al-Atrash, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli colonists since the beginning of this year has risen to 14, and the number since October 7, 2023, has reached 35, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.

This comes amid escalating settler attacks on villages and towns in the West Bank, carried out with the complicity and protection of the Israeli occupation forces.

@E.Y.M