JERUSALEM, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man on Thursday during an "attempted car-ramming and shooting" at a military checkpoint in the West Bank, the army said.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said two Palestinians drove up to the Bell checkpoint near Ramallah and Beitunia and tried to run over soldiers stationed there. One of them, armed with a gun, attempted to open fire, the IDF said. Troops returned fire, killing him, while the second suspect was arrested at the scene. No Israeli soldiers were injured.
The Palestinian Health Ministry later identified the dead man as 37-year-old Mohammad Ali Shtayyeh. It said Israeli forces shot him near the village of Beit Ur al-Fawqa, west of Ramallah, and took his body.
The incident came amid rising violence in the West Bank as Israel pressed its military campaign in Gaza. On Tuesday, Israeli officials said a Palestinian carried out a car-ramming and stabbing at the Al-Khader junction near Bethlehem, injuring two teenagers before being shot dead.
Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war. The settlements it has built there, and its military occupation, are considered illegal under international law. Enditem
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