Accusing of Starting Riots, Israeli Soldiers Shoot Palestinians in Clashes in West Bank: One Killed and Three Injured

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JAKARTA - A Palestinian died from his wounds after being shot by Israeli forces during clashes in the West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Sunday.

The Israeli military said Palestinians had 'started' violent riots near the town of Qarawet Bani Hassan on Saturday, with soldiers already operating there opening fire.

In addition to the death toll, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said three other residents were injured. The incident follows months of deepening tensions since Israeli forces began a crackdown on the West Bank in March in response to a series of attacks by Palestinians in Israel.

Earlier, Israeli forces had shot and killed two Palestinian men, including a doctor, during an attack in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Friday.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the doctor as Abdullah al-Ahmad, in his 40s, and said he was shot in the head by Israeli forces on Friday morning in front of the Jenin public hospital.

The second person to die on Friday morning was 20-year-old Mateen Dabaya, a Health Ministry spokesman told Al Jazeera.

In a statement, the Jenin Brigades, a Palestinian armed resistance group formed last year, identified Dabaya as a local commander within their group.

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Dabaya was shot with a bullet in the head, ministry spokesman Mohammad Awawdeh said.

The assassination came shortly after dozens of Israeli armored vehicles stormed Jenin at 8 a.m. Friday, during which armed clashes and confrontations broke out with Israeli forces.

Video shared by local journalists shows Israeli forces opening fire on the ambulance crew.

At least five other Palestinians were wounded by live ammunition on Friday morning in Jenin, according to the health ministry.

Earlier, the state news agency Wafa announced a Palestinian teenager had died, due to injuries he sustained during his capture by Israeli forces last month.

Wafa, as well as the Palestinian Authority Prisoners Commission, identified him as 17-year-old Mohammad Maher Ghawadreh.

Ghawadreh, from the Jenin refugee camp, died while being treated at Tel Hashomer hospital in Israel. He was arrested after allegedly carrying out a shooting attack on a bus full of Israeli soldiers in the occupied Jordan Valley, wounding seven people on September 5.