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.