Israeli forces kill Palestinian man at al-Quds checkpoint

The Israeli regime's Hebrew-language media outlets claimed that the yet unidentified Palestinian arrived on foot at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of al-Quds early Saturday morning while carrying an M16 automatic rifle and began firing at Israeli forces in the area before being shot dead at the scene.

A "security guard" and another man were reportedly slightly injured after being shot at the checkpoint.

Israeli police forces were rushed into the scene and the two injured were evacuated by medical personnel to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in West al-Quds for treatment.

Earlier on Friday, an Israeli woman that tried to stab the regime's soldiers was shot and wounded in the northern West Bank in what officials were reportedly investigating as a possible attempted suicide.

The Israeli military claimed in a statement that the nearly 40-year-old woman approached the soldiers near the Tapuah Junction and tried to stab them.

“In response, the soldiers opened fire in her direction to remove the danger,” the military said.

According to the military report, the woman was “dressed as a Palestinian,” but did not elaborate.

The incidents came amid heightened tensions in the West Bank following a series of retaliatory Palestinian operations, and price tag attacks by extremist Zionist settlers.

Israeli settlers rampaged through several Palestinian towns in the West Bank on Tuesday night, torching cars, setting farmland on fire, and vandalizing homes, in scenes reminiscent of a pogrom earlier this year in the village of Huwwara.

The riots broke out the day after four Israeli settlers were shot dead and another four wounded in a retaliatory attack by two Palestinian resistance fighters at a gas station outside of the illegal settlement of Eli in the occupied West Bank.