A Palestinian was killed a month after he was shot during an Israeli raid in the West Bank | News of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Ezz El-Din Kanaan, 20, was shot in the head during a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian News Agency reported that a 20-year-old man died of his wounds a month after he was shot during an Israeli army incursion into the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian news agency Wafa said on Saturday that Izz al-Din Kanaan, from the town of Jaba near Jenin, was shot in the head on July 3 during one of the fiercest Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank since the armed Palestinian uprising against an open Israeli invasion. The occupation ended two decades ago.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of the secular nationalist Fatah movement, considered Kanaan one of its “fierce fighters” and vowed to avenge his loss.

Armed and masked fighters surrounded Kanaan’s condolence procession as his body, draped in the Palestinian flag and adorned with a headband from the group, was carried through his village of Jaba.

Kanaan’s death brings the death toll to 14 in the two-day raid, which included air strikes, hundreds of ground forces and bulldozers used to demolish roads and buildings.

The army claimed that it had inflicted heavy damage on fighting groups in the Jenin refugee camp and that it had seized thousands of weapons, bomb-making materials and caches of money during the raid.

Since early 2022, Israel has conducted near-daily raids in the West Bank in response to a series of Palestinian attacks. It says the raids are aimed at suppressing Palestinian militants, and said they are necessary because the Palestinian Authority is so weak.

and the continuing escalation of violence in the West Bank, where more than 170 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the start of 2023, according to an Associated Press tally.

Palestinians say such violence is the inevitable result of 56 years of illegal occupation and the absence of any political process with Israel. They also point to an increase in illegal settlement construction in the West Bank and settler violence.

The United Nations envoy to the Middle East told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the upsurge in violence is fueled by growing despair about the future, as the Palestinians still seek an independent state.

“The lack of progress towards a political horizon that addresses the core issues driving the conflict has left a dangerous and volatile vacuum, which is being filled by extremists on all sides,” said Tor Wiennesland.

Palestinian daily newspapers also highlighted, on Saturday, the confrontations that took place in occupied East Jerusalem during the week, including the attack on Muslim worshipers who were on their way to perform Friday prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as the suppression of a weekly protest in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

Israel captured the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza, in 1967. Since then, it has built settlements housing hundreds of thousands of Israelis on occupied land, which Palestinians claim as part of their future state.

International law expressly prohibits the occupying authorities from transferring their own civilian population into occupied territory. A UN expert has previously described Israeli settlements as a “war crime”.