Palestinians say 2 killed in clashes with IDF in West Bank

The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry says two people, a teenager and a 70-year-old man were killed in clashes in the West Bank.

The ministry says Rawhi Rashid Sawafta, 70, died “after being shot in the face” during a raid by the Israeli army in the city of Tubas in the north of the West Bank.

Nine Palestinians were wounded — two seriously — in clashes with Israeli forces during the raid, the ministry adds.

Earlier in the evening, another Palestinian, 16-year-old Abdallah Moqbel, was killed by Israeli fire in Beit Ummar in the southern West Bank, the Palestinian ministry says.

There is no immediate comment from the IDF.

Israeli forces have detained more than 1,000 Palestinians, many of them Hamas members, in West Bank raids since the October 7 assault by the terror group on southern Israel that killed more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians.

At least 122 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by the IDF, or in some cases by settlers, since October 7, according to the Palestinian health ministry.