A Palestinian who allegedly hurled an explosive device at Israeli soldiers during a raid in the Nablus area of the northern West Bank was shot dead early Sunday morning, the military said.

The IDF said the reservists of the Samaria Regional Brigade were not hurt by the bomb.

The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority health ministry said the man shot by the IDF was 19-year-old Hassan Ahmed Jamil Moussa and that he was killed at the Askar refugee camp at the eastern end of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

Majed Abu Kishk, the head of the Askar services committee, said the man was shot at around midnight during a raid on the camp.

Abu Kishk said that when he was handed over to the Palestinian ambulance services, “he was already dead.”

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