Palestinian Sameh Aktash was shot by armed Israeli settlers in south of Nablus, upon his return to the West Bank following his volunteer work in quake-hit areas of Türkiye.
At least five others were injured in the attack in which the suspect was neutralised on the spot, Israeli police say.
26-year-old Nassim Naif Salman Abu Fouda is the 35th Palestinian to be killed since the start of the year amid an escalation in violence.
Gunman kills seven people outside a synagogue in Neve Yaakov, an illegal Jewish settler neighbourhood, before being shot dead by Israeli police, day after Israel killed 10 Palestinians in occupied West Bank.
According to the local media, Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right allies’ plan to restructure the military has triggered some in the Israeli army to question how it might impact its chain of command.
Benjamin Netanyahu is set to return to power in Israel for the fifth time, with the most ultra-far-right coalition in the country’s history.
To a question on whether the US side had raised the issue during the visit of Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top officials in Washington, a senior Israeli official told reporters, "Yes".
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi discussed among other issues "efforts to revive the peace process" between Israel and Palestine.
Israeli army says students belong to a Hamas student wing at Birzeit University, which condemned the arrests and appealed for their release.
Investigation determines series of Israeli air strikes that left more than 40 people dead in besieged Gaza’s neighbourhood were conducted “without warning” and “with limited intelligence about what they were attacking”.
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