Palestinian man killed at West Bank checkpoint as Blinken begins Middle East trip
by Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem and Julian Borger from World news | The Guardian on (#68AWN)
US secretary of state to meet Israeli PM and Palestinian Authority president after spate of deadly attacks
A Palestinian man has died after an altercation with Israeli troops, as violence in the region continued to spiral before the arrival of the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken.
Nassim Nayef Salman Abu Fouda, 26, was shot in the head at a checkpoint in the restive city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said on Monday. The Israeli army said Abu Fouda had driven his car into a soldier, and crashed it after shots were fired and he attempted to drive off.
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