{"id":19680,"date":"2018-10-24T14:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19680"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:23:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:23:42","slug":"palestinian-killed-by-israeli-fire-in-occupied-west-bank-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19680","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian killed by Israeli fire in occupied West Bank: PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"87.0993377483\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian man in the occupied\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/east-jerusalem.html\">West Bank<\/a>, the Palestinian Authority health ministry said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>The ministry identified the man as 21-year-old Mohammed\u00a0<\/span>Bisharat and said he succumbed to his wounds after being shot in the chest in the West Bank village of Taamun, northeast of the city of Nablus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">It said three others were wounded but did not specify the severity of their injuries.<\/p>\n<p><span>Eyes witnesses said Israeli soldiers used live bullets and tear gas against Palestinian protesters during the overnight raids across the occupied territory. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A spokeswoman for the Israeli military confirmed that an operation had taken place and that the army resorted to live ammunition but did not mention the death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A series of deadly incidents have increased tensions in the occupied West Bank this month.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Israeli forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/occupied-west-bank.html\">killed<\/a> Moammar Arif Refa&#8217;ey al-Atrash, a 42-year-old man from Hebron after he allegedly tried to stab an Israeli soldier.<\/p>\n<p>On October 15, a Palestinian was shot dead after allegedly stabbing an Israeli soldier in the northern West Bank, while a few days earlier,\u00a0Aisha Al-Rawbi, a 47-year-old Palestinian mother of eight was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/thousands-attend-funeral-palestinian-aisha-al-rawbi-181013120816302.html\">killed after Israeli settlers threw\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/thousands-attend-funeral-palestinian-aisha-al-rawbi-181013120816302.html\">stones<\/a>\u00a0at the car she was travelling in.<\/p>\n<p>The West Bank was occupied by Israel in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/specialseries\/2017\/05\/war-june-1967-170529070920911.html\">1967 Six-Day War<\/a>\u00a0in a move never recognised by the international community. Palestinians want the territory as part of their future state but the continued expansion of Israeli settlements has complicated that task.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian figures put the number of settlers living on occupied land at more than 650,000 &#8211; scattered throughout some 200 settler outposts across the occupied West Bank and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/east-jerusalem.html\">occupied East Jerusalem<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian man in the occupied\u00a0West Bank, the Palestinian Authority health ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry identified the man as 21-year-old Mohammed\u00a0Bisharat and said he succumbed to his wounds after being shot in the chest in the West Bank village of Taamun, northeast of the city of Nablus. 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