Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man on Saturday morning southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron , amid widespread raids and attacks on other towns and cities.
Security and local sources reported that Israeli forces shot and killed a 25-year-old man identified as Ahmad Abu Ghaliyeh al-Suwaiti.
Israeli authorities later claimed the man was attempting to approach the illegal Israeli settlement of Negohot.
According to the official Palestinian Wafa news agency, citing local sources, Israeli authorities withheld the body following the killing, a practice Palestinians have long decried as a form of collective punishment as it does not allow the family to mourn or bury the body.
Israeli forces also raided several areas in the occupied West Bank early on Saturday, detaining several people.
A child identified as Youssef Fouad Hassan was detained after his home in the town of Qusra, located southeast of Nablus, was raided and ransacked.
Another civilian, Nidal Abu Saada, from the village of Beit Dajan, was also detained after Israeli forces broke into his home.
Israeli raids also took place in the town of Al-Khader in the Bethlehem governorate. Israeli forces were stationed in large numbers in the vicinity of the Zaid Ibn Thabit Mosque, while raids also took place in the city of Qalqilya.
The raids and detentions come a day after Israeli settlers on Friday set fire to a farm in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah , in the latest example of settler violence that has surged since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023.
Local sources reported that the settlers stormed the village from its northern side and set fire to the farm, which belongs to a named named Mohammed Omar Rizq.
The Wafa news agency also reported that settlers attacked and beat a Palestinian man on Friday evening in the city of Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem.
The latest string of attacks take place amid a rise in the number of Israeli military check points being set up across the West Bank, disrupting the daily life of civilians and restricting the movement of people.
Israeli forces early on Saturday set up a new checkpoint at the entrance to the village of Yabrud, east of Ramallah.
The checkpoint put a stop to any vehicles passing through, while Israeli forces inspected cars, and asked for identification cards.
Israel currently has over 1,000 military checkpoints and gates set up in the West Bank, separating governorates and severely impeding Palestinians from carrying out daily tasks and moving between areas.
The Israeli attacks in the West Bank coincides with continued daily killings in Gaza , despite a ceasefire in place since October.
On Saturday, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, condemned the killing by Israeli forces of two truck drivers contracted by the organisation to deliver clean drinking water to families in the enclave.
UNICEF said in a statement that the drivers were carrying out a routine delivery on Friday at the al-Mansoura water tanker station in northern Gaza, which supplies the city with freshwater.
At least two others were wounded in the attack, which forced UNCIEF to suspend activities at the site.