Palestinian Man Killed by Israeli Forces in Southern West Bank

Hours after another Palestinian was killed by Israeli troops in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, an Israeli soldier shot and killed a Palestinian man in the vicinity of Beit Ummar in the southern part of the occupied West Bank on Saturday.

According to a formal announcement, the guy has been named as Mohamed Baradyah, 23, by the Palestinian Authority.

The man was shot by the military while operating a car, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, badly wounding him.

According to witnesses cited by WAFA, Baradyah was forced to bleed out before dying to his injuries because Palestinian medical workers were not allowed access to the site.

Three soldiers were reportedly injured when Baradyah allegedly launched "a ramming attack at a checkpoint next to the village of Beit Ummar."

The 23-year-old was from Surif, which is a town near Hebron.

A Palestinian was shot and murdered outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in the early hours of Saturday, less than 24 hours before Baradyah's passing.

According to Israeli police, the suspect, identified as 26-year-old Mohammed al-Asibi from the southern Israeli Bedouin hamlet of Hura, grabbed a pistol from a police officer and made an attempt to discharge it before being fatally shot.

Al-family Asibi's and Palestinian witnesses, however, refuted this story, claiming that the police had withheld video of the event and had instead only published images of the dead Palestinian being present at the site of an altercation.

They insisted on viewing the Surveillance footage.

Passersby heard gunfire, and at approximately 1:00 am, an AFP photographer noticed a large number of police officers positioned in the Old City (2200 GMT on Friday).

The Raam party, which is made up of Palestinian Israeli citizens and controversially participated in the previous government of Israel, rejected the police account of what happened and noted in a Facebook post the claims made by witnesses that Asibi came to the aid of a woman who was engaged in a physical altercation with police. Investigation was necessary.