A 30-year-old man, identified as Amir Abdel Rahman Majd, was shot dead by Israeli forces during a raid in a town east of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank. Suwaidan, Al Jazeera quotes Palestinian news agency Wafa as reporting.

Majd’s companion Muhammad Hassan Suwaidan was slightly injured by a bullet fragment and was later detained by Israeli forces.

According to medical sources who spoke to Wafa, Israeli forces blocked the ambulance carrying Majd to the hospital, stopping it for about an hour.

He died shortly after reaching the Darwish Nazzal Governmental Hospital in Qalqilya.

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