A Palestinian man was shot dead during clashes with Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Palestinian health ministry and the Israeli military said.
It is the latest in a growing number of deaths in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict this year that has sparked international concern.
Mithkal Suleiman Rayyan, 27, died of a head wound near the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, south of the northern city of Nablus, the ministry said.
The Israeli military said it was aware that a Palestinian had been declared dead after “heavy fighting between dozens of Palestinians and Israeli civilians” near the village.
“Soldiers were dispatched to the scene and responded with riot control measures and shots in the air. The confrontation broke up,” he said in a statement.
The regional council representing Jewish settlements in the northern part of the West Bank said: “A group of ramblers from the community of Havat Yair, who were walking on Saturday, were attacked by Palestinians … and fired in the air.”
The clashes are frequent in the West Bank, where some 475,000 settlers, not including those in annexed east Jerusalem, live among more than 2.8 million Palestinians.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel and the West Bank last month, and in talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders called on both sides to prevent further bloodshed.