Palestinian gunman kills Israeli soldier in West Bank

A bulldozer clears the rubble along a street in the occupied West Bank Jenin refugee camp on July 6, 2023, following a large-scale Israeli military operation that lasted for two days. The Israeli military launched the raid on the Jenin refugee camp early on July 3, during which 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

NEAR KDUMIM SETTLEMENT, West Bank (Reuters): A Palestinian gunman shot and killed an Israeli soldier near a settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday (June 6), the military said, in an attack the Hamas fighter group said it carried out in response to a two-day raid this week in Jenin.

The gunman fired at security forces who had stopped to inspect his vehicle by the Kdumim settlement near the Palestinian city Nablus, the Israeli military said.