The 3rd in hour, Israeli forces kill Palestinian youth in Bethlehem

Bethlehem (QNN)- Israeli occupation forces shot dead a Palestinian youth for allegedly carrying out a stabbing operation, south of Bethlehem city, earlier on Thursday.

Local sources said Israeli soldiers shot and killed the 30-year-old Nidal Ja‘afra near the illegal settlement of Gush Etzion, south of Bethlehem.

Ja‘afra is a resident of the village of Tarqoumya near Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.

Israeli media sources claimed that Ja‘afra allegedly stabbed and injured four Israelis.

Since Thursday morning, Israeli forces have shot and killed three Palestinian youths; Ja‘afra is the third Palestinian martyer.

The two others are Sanad Abu Atiya (17) and Yazeed al-Saadi (23). Israeli forces killed them during a military raid into the Jenin refugee camp.