Israel army kills Palestinian near Ramallah

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian man on Sunday and hit him with their jeep during clashes east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian security sources said.

Abdallah Ghanayem, 21, died during clashes that erupted in the village of Kfar Malik following a dawn Israeli army raid, the sources said. 

An army spokesman told AFP that a Palestinian had died after he threw an incendiary device at a jeep and the vehicle overturned on him.

Witnesses and Palestinian medical sources, however, gave Maan News Agency a different account: Ghanayem, they said, was throwing stones when he was shot in the lower back. The jeep then lost control and flipped on top of him on the sidewalk.

Maan reported that Ghanayem was left under the jeep for more than an hour.

It was the second death of a Palestinian in clashes with Israeli forces in less than a week, after a man was shot dead during a confrontation with the army on Wednesday in a northern West Bank refugee camp.

According to the UN, Israeli soldiers have killed 11 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the year.