The Palestinian Authority announced on Tuesday the death in the occupied West Bank of a young Jordanian, hit on Monday by fire from the Israeli army who accused him of being the accomplice of a man about to commit an attack.
Taoufic Aed Fawaz Hussein, aged 25, was hit by Israeli fire at the “Zeita crossroads, north of Tulkarem”, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
This young man was “wounded in the leg and the occupying forces left him to bleed out for more than an hour and a half in the ambulance before he succumbed to his injuries,” he said. he added.
Suspected of being the accomplice of a man on his way to a suicide attack
Asked by AFP, a spokesperson for the Israeli army indicated that this Jordanian was suspected of being the accomplice of another man, Mohammed Jabar, who, according to an army press release published Monday evening, was “eliminated (Monday) in the village of Zeita while on his way to Israel to carry out a suicide attack.”
Jabar “was armed (...) and had an explosive device ready to be detonated,” the army added.
The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to AFP's requests for comment.
His family lived in a refugee camp
Taoufic Aed Fawaz Hussein, originally from the Jordanian town of Russeifa, had come to the West Bank to see his family in the Nour-Shams refugee camp, a Palestinian security source told AFP, on condition of anonymity.
The war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas, triggered by the unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on October 7, has led to an intensification of violence in the West Bank.
According to the Palestinian Authority, at least 427 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers since October 7.