A Palestinian protester burns tires during clashes with Israeli soldiers after a protest against the expanding of Jewish settlements in Kufr Qadoom village near the West Bank city of Nablus, on April 8, 2022.(Photo: Xinhua)
Israeli forces killed two Palestinian women on Sunday after one ran toward troops and the other stabbed a soldier in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, Israeli security officials said.
With violence surging after a string of deadly Arab attacks in Israel, a Palestinian man was killed by Israeli soldiers during what local residents said were confrontations with stone-throwers near the West Bank town of Bethlehem, the Palestinian health ministry said.
The Israeli military said troops shot a Palestinian throwing petrol bombs toward an Israeli vehicle.
The bloodshed has coincided with the start of the holy month of Ramadan, when the violence between Israel and Palestine has erupted in the past and, in 2021's May, spiraled into an 11-day war between Gaza militants and Israel.
In Bethlehem, no weapon was found on the body of a Palestinian woman who was shot and killed after she ignored soldiers' calls and warning fire to stop running toward them, the Israeli military said.
Hours later, a Palestinian woman armed with a knife was shot dead after she slightly wounded a paramilitary border policeman in Hebron, outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs, which Muslims call al-Ibrahimi mosque, Israeli security officials said.
Israeli forces have been on high alert following attacks by three members of Israel's Arab minority and two Palestinians from the West Bank that have killed 14 people in Israel since late March.
More than 20 Palestinians, many of them armed militants, have been killed by Israeli forces since January, while Palestinians have reported a rise in violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
Reuters