Israel says forces open fire on West Bank stone-throwers, one dead

Jan 1 (Reuters) - The ⁠Israeli military ⁠said ‍its forces killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank ‍in the early hours on Thursday as ​they opened fire on people who were throwing ​stones at soldiers.

Two other people were hit on a main road near the village of Luban al-Sharqiya ​in Nablus, the military statement added. It described the people as militants ​and said the stone-throwing was part of an ambush.

Palestinian authorities ‌in the West Bank said a 26-year-old man they named as Khattab ​Al Sarhan was killed ⁠and another person wounded.

Israeli forces had closed the main entrance ‌to the village of Luban al-Sharqiya, in Nablus, and blocked several secondary roads on Wednesday, ‌the Palestinian Authority's official news agency WAFA reported.

More ‌than a thousand Palestinians were killed in the West Bank between October 2023 and October 2025, ‍mostly in operations by security forces and some by settler violence, ⁠the U.N. has said.

Over the same period, 57 Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks.

(Reporting by Ali Sawafta, Writing by Ahmed Elimam, Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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