Israeli police kill Palestinian in West Bank raid

The Palestinian Health Ministry said a Palestinian man was killed by Israeli fire on Thursday, which Israeli police said occurred during a West Bank raid, alleging the man threw a firebomb at the forces.
The Health Ministry identified the man as Daoud Mahmoud Khalil Rayan, 42, from Beit Duqqu, in the occupied West Bank.
In a separate incident Thursday, a Palestinian was shot after stabbing a police officer in Jerusalem’s Old City. The officer was lightly wounded and the attacker’s condition was not immediately known. Another officer was lightly wounded by his colleague’s fire.
In the West Bank incident, Israeli police said paramilitary border guards had raided the home in the town of a Palestinian who slammed his car into an Israeli soldier on Wednesday. There they faced a violent protest, with demonstrators throwing stones and firebombs at the forces. The forces opened fire on the firebomb thrower, police said.
It was latest in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian fighting in the West Bank and east Jerusalem that has killed more than 130 Palestinians this year, making 2022 the deadliest since 2015. The violence intensified in the spring, after a wave of Palestinian attacks against Israelis killed 19 people, prompting Israel to launch a months-long operation in the West Bank it says is meant to dismantle militant networks. The raids have been met in recent weeks by a rise in attacks against Israelis, killing at least three.