Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man, on Friday afternoon, after an alleged shooting attack near the illegal “Ariel” settlement, north of Salfit in the central occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the General Authority for Civil Affairs informed them that the citizen, Samer Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, 46, was shot and killed by Israeli forces north of the city of Salfit.
Media sources said that soldiers opened fire at the man after he allegedly carried out a shooting attack on a bus full of illegal Israeli colonizers near the “Ariel” settlement, built on expropriated Palestinian lands.
Sources added that after shooting the alleged perpetrator, the army denied any medical intervention, leaving the married father of five bleeding on the ground until he succumbed to his wounds; Israeli forces confiscated the body of the slain man.
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The shooting attack resulted in the injury of at least nine illegal colonizers, four of whom sustained live gunshot wounds, three of those were described as serious and another moderate, while five others sustained minor injuries from shattered glass, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service.
In a statement, the Israeli army announced that the alleged perpetrator was “neutralized” and that the area was closed off and a search operation was carried out for a possible second assailant.
The statement added that the slain man approached the bus while he was carrying an “automatic” weapon and wearing a bulletproof vest, before he was shot by occupation forces.
The WAFA News Agency reported that after killing Hussein, a large army force invaded the village of Einabus, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank and surrounded his family home.
It is important to mention that the “Al-Qassam Brigades” the armed resistance group associated with the Hamas movement, claimed responsibility for the shooting.
