The Israeli Army kills a Palestinian in an operation in the West Bank city of Silwad

The Israeli Army killed a Palestinian this Tuesday as part of a new operation in the West Bank town of Silwad, located on the outskirts of Ramallah, in which two soldiers were slightly injured after an attack with a knife allegedly carried out by the deceased.

Thus, he indicated that “two terrorists attacked two soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during an operational activity in Silwad”, before stating that “the forces responded by opening fire.” “One terrorist was eliminated and the other was neutralized and arrested”; has stated.

The General Authority for Civil Affairs of Palestine has indicated in a statement on social networks that the deceased, Abdulhalim Ruhi Abdulhalim Hamad, 37, has fallen a “martyr” by Israeli gunfire in Silwad, without further details about the incident. Furthermore, he stressed that the soldiers are holding the body.

Local sources cited by the Palestinian news agency WAFA have reported that Israeli forces broke into Hamad’s home before the incident, while maintaining that the detainee is the father of the deceased, who would have been released shortly after, without Israel having confirmed this.

The event has taken place amid the spike in attacks by settlers and incursions by Israeli security forces since October 7, 2023, the date of the attacks against Israel led by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), although in the first nine months of that year record numbers of Palestinian deaths had been recorded in these territories in two decades, since the Second Intifada.