Hebrew media reported that the young man who clashed was Abdul Raouf Ishtayeh, who had barricaded himself in a building on Amman Street in the city of Nablus, and was killed after engaging in an armed clash with an Israeli special force.
She pointed out that the martyr who was assassinated by the “Yamam” special forces in Nablus was the perpetrator of a car-ramming attack during the Gaza war a year and a half ago (May 2024), which resulted in the killing of two soldiers in the occupation army near Nablus.
Earlier, the Voice of Palestine radio station (government-run) reported that the occupation army had deployed military reinforcements and was besieging a house in the western area of Nablus, noting that "armed clashes broke out after the discovery of (Israeli) special forces" in the city.
For its part, the Israeli occupation army announced in a statement that a clash had broken out in Nablus between its forces and Palestinians "as part of an activity by the Israeli army forces, the Yamam unit and the Shin Bet (General Security Service) to thwart terrorism," as it put it.
These developments come within the framework of escalating Israeli attacks in the occupied West Bank for more than two years, coinciding with the war of extermination in the Gaza Strip that began on October 8, 2023.
These attacks resulted in the martyrdom of more than 1,080 Palestinians, the injury of about 11,000 others, in addition to the arrest of more than 20,500 people, according to official Palestinian sources.
On October 10th, a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel came into effect, ending an Israeli offensive that left more than 69,000 Palestinian martyrs in the Gaza Strip and over 170,000 wounded.
