On Sunday, September 28, 2025, Israeli occupation forces shot and killed 24-year-old Mahmoud Hassan Abdul-Rahman Aqqad near the village of Jit, east of Qalqilia in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank. The killing followed an incident in which Aqqad allegedly fatally wounded an Israeli soldier—though multiple sources suggest the soldier may have been killed by friendly fire.
The incident occurred at Jit Junction, adjacent to the illegal Israeli colony of Kedumim, where Staff Sergeant Inbar Avraham Kav, 20, was also killed.
Kav, a soldier in the Paratroopers Brigade’s 890th Battalion, was traveling in a military jeep on Route 60 with another soldier when they reportedly suspected a Palestinian truck driver behind them was attempting to ram their vehicle.
According to Israeli military sources, the soldiers stopped at the junction, and the truck accelerated, striking one of them.
The second soldier opened fire, killing the driver. Kav was critically injured during the exchange and later died at Beilinson Hospital.
Israeli outlets including Ynetnews, JPost, and Haaretz reported that a knife was found in the truck and that the army is investigating whether Kav was killed by friendly fire.
As of this report, the Israeli army has not issued a definitive conclusion, though friendly fire remains a leading possibility.
Palestinian sources stated that Aqqad was shot and killed on the spot, and that Israeli forces invaded the village of Jit immediately afterward, storming homes, ransacking property, and confiscating surveillance camera footage.
Israeli medical teams described the event as a “truck ramming an Israeli vehicle,” prompting live fire and what they called the “neutralization” of the suspect. One Israeli was seriously injured and treated by Magen David Adom paramedics.
It is worth mentioning that Israeli forces executed two Palestinian young men before dawn on Thursday, after besieging a home in the town of Tammun, south of Tubas in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the two young men killed by occupation forces as Mohammad Qassem Suleiman, 29, and Ala’ Jawdat Bani Odah, 20, adding that the army confiscated their bodies.
Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers have killed 212 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 39 children and 6 women.
Occupation forces have killed 71 Palestinians in Jenin, 37 in Nablus, 29 in Tubas, 17 in Tulkarem, 16 in Hebron, 15 in Ramallah, 9 in Bethlehem, 7 in Jerusalem, 7 in Qalqilia, 3 in Salfit, and 1 in Jericho.
Since October 7, Israeli soldiers and colonizers have killed 1,047 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank; 295 were killed in Jenin, 213 in Tulkarem, 130 in Nablus, 96 in Tubas, 93 in Hebron, 74 in Ramallah,57 in Jerusalem, 39 in Qalqilia, 30 in Bethlehem, 13 in Jericho and 7 in Salfit.
In the Gaza Strip, Israel has now killed at least 65,549 Palestinians and wounded 167,518, the majority of whom are children, women, and elderly, since October 2023. Thousands more are believed to be buried under the rubble.
