The Israeli military said on Tuesday its troops opened fire as the man tried to flee arrest. The young man died of his wounds in an Israeli hospital, a military statement said.

A Palestinian security source identified the victim as Islam al-Tubasi. The Islamic Jihad issued a statement mourning Tubasi as one of its members.

He is the fourth Palestinian killed in the West Bank since Israel and Palestinians resumed the so-called peace talks in July.

Regular meetings between negotiators from both sides as part of US-brokered peace talks have continued despite a similar incident in late August at another refugee camp where Israeli military forces martyred three Palestinian men.

The negotiations resumed after a three-year stalemate over illegal Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank and East al-Quds, areas Israel usurped in 1967 and where the Palestinians hope to set up an independent state.

More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967.

The United Nations and most countries regard the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbids construction on occupied lands.

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