The Israeli forces have shot dead another Palestinian alleging that he attempted to stab a police officer with a kitchen knife.
Witnesses quoted by Al Jazeera said that the incident happened on Tuesday morning in the port city of Asqalan (Ashkelon) when Israeli police entered a work site to check whether the Palestinians there had permits.
“The Palestinians are saying that the man did not pose any threat and that the Israeli police were acting in a very violent way,” said Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Jenin.
The man killed on Tuesday was reportedly in his 40s and his name was not immediately known. Local media reported he was a resident of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.