The Palestinian Health Ministry named the alleged assailant shot by Israeli forces as Amro Abu Hussein JERUSALEM: Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Friday, medics said, after military officials alleged he carried out a car ramming. The army said soldiers “neutralized” the driver who rammed the car into people near a military post south of the city of Hebron. The Magen David Adom paramedic service said that it treated one person in moderate condition and three others who were lightly wounded. The Palestinian Health Ministry named the alleged assailant shot by Israeli forces as Amro Abu Hussein. The West Bank has been under military occupation since the 1967 Six-Day war, with violence in the Palestinian territory escalating since the outbreak of fighting between Israel and Gaza rulers Hamas nearly three months ago. FASTFACT More than 520 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank this year by Israeli security forces and settlers, according to a Health Ministry toll. More than 520 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank this year by Israeli security forces and settlers, according to a Health Ministry toll, at least 314 of them since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Israel has been conducting operations across the West Bank, with the military saying it targeted money exchange shops it accused of providing funds to militant groups. On Thursday, the Health Ministry said a Palestinian man was killed during an raid in Ramallah on Thursday, seat of the Palestinian Authority. He was identified as Hazem Qattawi by the Palestinian news agency Wafa, which added that 14 others were wounded during clashes with soldiers and three more were arrested. On Thursday evening, a 38-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces near Bethlehem. The Red Crescent said medics treated people wounded by Israeli forces in multiple West Bank locations across the governorates of Hebron in the south, Jericho in the east, and Jenin and Nablus in the north. Israel’s military said that its troops shot at “assailants (who) hurled explosive devices, Molotov cocktails, rocks, and opened fire at Israeli security forces.” In Ramallah, an AFP journalist saw Palestinians hurl Molotov cocktails at Israeli forces. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics treated eight people for gunshot wounds.