Israeli soldiers destroyed a residential building and killed a civilian in the West Bank on Monday in order to find a man they accused of carrying out a shooting at a checkpoint, Al Jazeera reported.
Israeli soldiers raided the the town of Aqaba, hunting for a Palestinian man called Ahmad Walid, who they accuse of carrying out an attack near a checkpoint in the Jordan Valley last month.
Witnesses saw soldiers beat one of Walid’s brothers in front of his wife and chikdren before arresting him along with another brother and his father.
The Israeli soldiers fired grenades, live ammunition, teargas and soundbombs at a residential building where his family lived with other families, destroying two floors, and an adjacent wedding hall.
Fighting then broke out between the soldiers and local Palestinians, and a 36-year-old Palestinian farmer – Abdul Rahim Fayez Ghannam –Â was caught in the crossfire and fatally shot in the head.
Israeli soldiers prevented ambulances from reaching the wounded, and shot at one ambulance with live ammunition.
