Official Palestinian medical sources identified the man as 38-year-old Iyad Zakariya Khamed, Haaretz reported.
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The Israel Defense Forces say the Palestinian man shot dead Friday morning in the West Bank after allegedly charging an army outpost was not a terrorist, an initial IDF investigation said later in the day.
The spokeswoman said that “the details were still being checked”, when asked whether the Palestinian had been armed.
Israeli security forces arrested a young Palestinian woman with a knife in her bag Saturday at the Qalandiya checkpoint in the West Bank, just north of Jerusalem. The onlooking forces, from the ultra-Orthodox unit of the Kfir Brigade, fired warning shots, as is protocol.
The report said the man was unarmed and nothing was found on his body.
“Upon the suspect’s advance, the force shot the suspect, eventually resulting in his death”, the spokesperson said, adding that the incident is now under investigation.
No soldiers were injured.
Terrrorist attacks on Israelis in June remained relatively low in volume but resulted in the highest number of fatalities since January.
According to the Electronic Intifada website, “Photos from the scene apparently show Abu Ghurab’s body still seated in the auto which he was driving, and soldiers evacuating his body from the vehicle, appear to contradict the army’s account that Abu Ghurab exited the auto before he was shot dead”.
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Since October, Palestinians, many of them acting alone and with rudimentary weapons, have killed at least 33 Israelis and two visiting Americans.
