Israeli forces kill Palestinian in West Bank raid

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man in a raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Early on Thursday, Israeli forces raided the home of a Palestinian they said carried out a car-ramming attack at a checkpoint near the city of Modiin on Wednesday, seriously wounding a soldier.

The 54-year-old man was shot dead at the site of the attack.

During the raid in the town of Beit Duqu, northwest of Jerusalem, Palestinians hurled rocks at the attacking Israeli soldiers. The Israeli military said that "hits were identified".

The man killed by Israeli soldiers in the raid was identified by the Palestinian Health Ministry as 42-year-old Dawood Mahmoud Khalil Rayyan.

The Israeli army has accelerated daily raids in the West Bank since March, with Palestinians being killed and injured on a near-daily basis. 

More than 100 Palestinians from the West Bank have been killed by Israeli forces this year, in what the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said is set to be the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since 2005, when the United Nations began consistently tracking fatalities.

(Reuters and The New Arab Staff)