RAMALLAH, West Bank: An Israeli security guard shot dead an unarmed Palestinian who tried to break into a house in a small settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Israel’s military said.
The incident occurred overnight when a guard spotted the man, an army statement said. It said the Palestinian assaulted the guard before being shot and killed by another guard.
The incident was being treated as a terrorist attack, the statement added, though no weapon was found on the Palestinian’s body.
Palestinian officials confirmed that a 34-year-old man had been killed but said they had no further information.
Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are one of the most heated issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinians want the West Bank, captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, for part of a future state.
Talks on a peace agreement have been frozen since 2014.
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