Israeli forces killed a 55-year-old Palestinian man during a West Bank military raid on the town of Rummanah, west of Jenin, in the early hours of Thursday.
Ahmad al-Amour was shot with live ammunition and then run over by an Israeli military vehicle before soldiers withheld his body. His two sons were also detained during the raid.
Speaking to The New Arab's Arabic language edition, Hassan Sbeihat, head of the village council, said that al-Amour was killed "after the Israeli occupation forces shot him directly while he was in the street, without knowing the reasons".
Local sources told WAFA news agency that Israeli forces had stormed the town with infantry units, deploying snipers and searching numerous homes. Residents said that several homes were destroyed and a group of Palestinians were detained.
Al-Amour's killing brings the death toll in Jenin Governorate to 41 since Israel launched its military assault on the city and its refugee camp in January.
The assault has now entered its 171st day, with thousands of homes demolished and over 22,000 Palestinians displaced from Jenin and surrounding towns.
Local sources said Israeli forces stormed Qalandia refugee camp, north of Al-Aqsa mosque, before dawn on Thursday, detaining several young men and interrogating dozens. Witnesses reported that some detainees were beaten during the raid before the military withdrew.
In the village of Shuqba, west of Ramallah, forces demolished five homes on Wednesday.
In Jenin city's Al-Hadaf neighbourhood, Israeli forces raided homes and detained dozens more Palestinians during a separate operation on Thursday morning. Locals reported drones flying overhead as soldiers fired live ammunition and carried out several detentions against young men.
Demolitions also continued in Jenin refugee camp, where Israeli bulldozers are carrying out an illegal plan announced in June to raze more than 100 Palestinian homes.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers, under army protection, installed three mobile homes on Palestinian land in Hebron's Jabal al-Rahma area, part of a continuing effort to expand illegal settlements.
According to residents, the area lies near the Tel Rumeida settlement and has already experienced land occupation by the Israeli military. Earlier this week, settlers placed mobile homes in Hebron’s historic centre, including in Khazaf al-Far and the Old Market (Souq al-Atiq).
Elsewhere in the West Bank, settlers erected several tents on land belonging to the village of Beit Imrin, northwest of Nablus. According to Murad Shteiwi, head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, the tents were placed near the villages of Burqa and Beit Imrin and signal "the beginning of a new colonial outpost".
In a separate incident, settlers destroyed a water pipeline that supplies multiple Palestinian villages in southern Nablus, including Jurish, Qusra, Qaryut, and Duma. According to WAFA, settlers used a bulldozer to demolish the pipeline between Aqraba and Majdal Bani Fadel at dawn on Thursday, cutting off access to water for thousands of residents.
Settlement expansion has long been a key facet of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank after it occupied the territory in 1967. Over 700,000 Jewish settlers currently live in the West Bank, although their presence is unequivocally illegal under international law, particularly per Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
In July 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concluded, in a case initiated in December 2022, that Israel’s occupation of both the West Bank and Gaza is illegal - a finding later endorsed by a UN General Assembly vote.
Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, said: "These actions are part of a wider pattern of unlawful Israeli policies and practices to dispossess, dominate and oppress Palestinians in the West Bank under Israel’s ruthless system of apartheid."
Nihad Shaweesh of the Nur Shams popular committee added: "If they let us return, even those whose homes haven’t been destroyed will need months to rehabilitate these homes, due to the heavy destruction and damage to the structures."