Israeli soldiers have shot dead a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, with the army claiming the man had tried to carry out an attack.
The Palestinian statement said that Ahmed Yacoub Taha, 39, was "killed by occupation bullets near Salfit" on Thursday
The Israeli military said a Palestinian man, who was "holding a knife," had been "neutralised", after reporting "an attempted car-ramming attack" near the Gitai Avissar junction in the Salfit area in the north of the occupied territory.
It added that no one else was wounded in the incident.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War, when it also seized east Jerusalem.
Violence in the territory since January has seen the deaths of 99 Palestinians, 19 Israelis, one Ukrainian and one Italian, according to an AFP count based on Israeli and Palestinian official sources.
