Palestinian man and teen shot dead in separate IDF altercations, as West Bank roils |
A Palestinian man and a teenager were shot dead in separate altercations with Israeli troops in the West Bank on Wednesday, while another settler attack was reported in the Jordan Valley.
The first incident took place in the central West Bank village of Silwad where the Israel Defense Forces were conducting a counterterrorism raid.
Troops entered a building where several Palestinians were residing, one of whom physically assaulted the troops while another stabbed them, the IDF said.
“The troops responded with fire,” the military said, adding that the suspect who stabbed the soldiers was killed and the second was “neutralized and arrested by the forces.”
The two injured troops were taken to a hospital in light condition, and their families were notified, the IDF said.
The Palestinian Authority’s General Authority for Civilian Affairs identified the slain man as Rawhi Hammad, 37, and said Israel was refusing to release his body. The PA office said Hammad’s brother was the individual arrested in the incident.
صورة ثانية للشهيد عبد الحليم روحي حماد منذ عملية الطعن التي أسفرت عن إصابة جنديين من جيش الاحتلال في بلدة سلواد شمال شرق رام الله pic.twitter.com/NYpZx0gsfU — شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) April 29, 2026
صورة ثانية للشهيد عبد الحليم روحي حماد منذ عملية الطعن التي أسفرت عن إصابة جنديين من جيش الاحتلال في بلدة سلواد شمال شرق رام الله pic.twitter.com/NYpZx0gsfU
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) April 29, 2026
Hours later, the PA Health Ministry said Ibrahim Abdel Fattah Al-Khayyat, 16, was “killed by gunfire from the occupation army in Hebron.”
The PA’s official news agency WAFA reported that Khayyat was hit in the stomach and three other Palestinians were wounded by the IDF gunfire in Hebron. Khayyat was declared dead at Hebron’s Palestinian Red Crescent Specialized Hospital and was buried in the city on Thursday, according to Palestinian media.
The IDF said later Wednesday that troops operating in Hebron had opened fire on “several terrorists throwing stones at the force.”
The statement said “hits were identified” but did not mention reports that anyone was killed. No Israeli troops were wounded in the incident, the military added.
Rights groups pan the IDF’s regular use of live fire to target Palestinian stone-throwers, something it does not do when the suspects are Israeli settlers.
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