He had run downstairs to see what was happening when troops stormed it to arrest his son Mohammed, they added.
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The hospital said 24-year-old Mohammed was being treated for a gunshot wound to the pelvis.
Peace Now said on Thursday that an Israeli military committee retroactively approved 24 housing units in the Beit El settlement, though Israel’s Supreme Court ordered them demolished by the end of July because they were built on private Palestinian lands.
One man attacked a soldier, who in response shot him in a lower limb.
The IDF soldiers were pelted with stones by relatives and locals around the scene of the arrest, and one soldier was choked, the reports said.
She could not confirm his identity but acknowledged the wanted suspect was not taken into custody. “The forces responded with hearth in the direction of the primary instigator”.
A soldier was “slightly injured” by a stone, she said.
Palestinian sources, however, maintain that there had not been any clashes and the shooting occurred inside Abu Maria’s house.
Also Thursday, Israeli forces raided a residential constructing in the northern West Bank metropolis of Nablus, the place based on Palestinian witnesses they shot after which arrested Mustafa Abu Riyala, sparking clashes.
Alawneh was shot in the chest and died shortly after arriving at hospital in Jenin, a Palestinian medic said.
A Palestinian doctor in a Hebron hospital said a 52-year-old man had been shot and killed and two of his sons were wounded.
Earlier this month, Col. Yisrael Shomer shot dead Mohammad Kosba, a 17-year-old from the Qalandiyah refugee camp north of Jerusalem, after the youth threw rocks at an his vehicle.
More than 20 Palestinians have been killed and another 2,156 have been detained by the Israeli military in 2015, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said in a report issued earlier this month.
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Palestinians, however, condemn the raids in the occupied territories, and the Hamas and Islamic Jihad militant groups hinted at revenge after Today’s death.
