Palestinian killed by IDF in northern West Bank

Clashes with the Israeli army erupt regularly in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 by the Hebrew state.

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Clashes erupted in Tammun, a village in the Jordan Valley, between Palestinians and the Israeli army.

The latter fired live ammunition and killed a 26-year-old. 

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With our correspondent in Ramallah

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Alice Froussard

Early on Tuesday morning, November 16, the Israeli army entered Tammun, a village between Nablus and Tubas, in the northern occupied West Bank.

If the army has not yet communicated on this subject, witnesses on the spot report that it wanted to make arrests.

Clashes erupt, stones fly, gunshots are heard.

Saddam Bani Odeh, 26, is shot dead by the Israeli army.

Many precedents

According to information from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the bullet passed through his left shoulder, then hit his heart and lungs.

Another dark day for the Palestinians

 ", " 

This is not the first time 

", we can read on social networks where many Palestinians post a photo of him, in front of a blue car, in tribute.

Already last week, the Israeli army killed a 15-year-old Palestinian child near Nablus by shooting him in the abdomen during a demonstration: it was the fifteenth Palestinian child killed by Israel in the West Bank or in East Jerusalem .

 See also: In the West Bank, restricted access to land undermines the olive harvest

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