RAMALLAH, Oct 22: One Palestinian was killed and two others seriously wounded on Sunday in clashes with Israeli forces carrying out an arrest raid in the West Bank, Palestinian security and medical sources said.

Mohamad Bani Odah, 25, was shot dead by Israeli forces who opened fire at a group of Palestinians throwing stones at them in the village of Tamoon, south of the city of Ramallah, the sources said.

According to the medical sources, 17 other Palestinians were injured in the clashes, including two in serious condition.

An Israeli army spokesman confirmed it had entered the village with some 20 jeeps and arrested a militant of the radical Islamic Jihad group, after which the clashes erupted.

“During the clashes, Palestinians threw stones, Molotov cocktails, explosive devices and fired on the force which in reaction opened fire and identified hitting several people,” the spokesman told AFP.

The latest deaths bring to 5,444 the number of people killed since the start of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000, the vast majority of them Palestinians, according to an AFP count.—AFP