A Palestinian workman was shot dead on Sunday morning by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) during his presence near the separation wall in Qalqilya in the northern West Bank.
The Palestinian health ministry identified the victim as Nabil Ghanem a 53-year-old worker from Nablus.
He was gunned down near the Jaljulia gate at the separation wall in Qalqilya according to eyewitnesses.
An Israeli military source claimed that an Israeli soldier opened fire at the Palestinian and killed him immediately as he was trying to sabotage the wall.
Meanwhile the IOF kidnaped in the morning several Palestinian workers after storming Barta’ah town in the southwest of Jenin.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society the IOF rounded up 13 workers following a raid on an apartment building in Barta’ah.
