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Israeli forces accused of killing ‘defenceless Palestinian’ man

The 36-year-old man from the West Bank town of Beit Ijza was a "defenceless Palestinian" who was not "posing any danger," the Palestinian foreign ministry said. [Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]

Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank after what the army called an “attempted ramming attack”, but the Palestinian authorities have accused Israeli police of intentionally killing the man, identified as Muhammad Ali Hussein Awad.

“The Israeli police deliberately shot Awad, with the aim of killing him, after his vehicle collided with a police vehicle in a traffic accident,” the Palestinian foreign ministry said on Saturday.

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