According to the official Palestinian agency Wafa, the man was called Nabil Ghanem and was one of the tens of thousands of West Bank workers who go to Israel every day. The Israeli army has announced an investigation.
Le Monde with AFP
A Palestinian worker was shot on Sunday, June 19, by Israeli forces, near the separation barrier in occupied West Bank, said the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Man was identified by the ministry as Nabil Ghanem, 53 years old. He was a worker from the city of Naplus, in the north of the West Bank. The Israeli army said to the France-Presse (AFP) agency that it was investigating this death.
According to the official WAFA agency, Nabil Ghanem was one of the tens of thousands of Palestinian workers in West Bank who go to Israel every day, where they perceive higher wages, especially in the construction sectors and the Agriculture.
Three armed Palestinians killed during clashes with the Israeli army
The facts come two days after the death of three armed Palestinians, including a local commander of the Hamas Islamist movement, during clashes with the Israeli army in the Jénine sector (north of the West Bank), where Israeli forces Multiply operations from a series of attacks in March having killed at least nineteen people in Israel. Since these attacks, at least forty-five Palestinians, including some members of armed factions, have been killed during various incidents involving the Israeli army in the West Bank.
Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip (geographically separated territory of the occupied West Bank and under blockade Israeli), had threatened the Hebrew state of reprisals on Friday following the death of one of its local commanders during From the operation to Jenine.
Saturday, a rocket was drawn from the Gaza Strip to Israel, which replied by strikes on this paved enclave of 2.3 million inhabitants.