RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: Israeli forces on Monday shot dead a Palestinian worker as he attempted to climb over a barrier separating Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.
The Ramallah-based ministry reported that 30-year-old Naser Kaabneh “was killed by Israeli gunfire this morning near the apartheid wall in the town of Bir Nabala, northeast of Jerusalem.”
Israeli police and border forces did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment.
The Jerusalem Governorate, a Palestinian regional authority for the area, confirmed the details of the incident.
“He was struck by a direct bullet to the heart while trying to reach his workplace inside the city to support his family,” the governorate’s media office said.
