“Abdallah Azzam Shalaldeh, aged 27, was killed by a unit of (undercover agents) at the Hebron hospital,” said the Palestinian health ministry.
Israel’s internal security services confirmed the raid, saying that Israeli forces fired when the man — thought to be close to Azzam Shalaldeh, who carried out a knife attack in October — tried to resist arrest.
According to the Shin Bet security service, Shalaldeh is “from a family of Hamas militants” who fled the scene of the October 25 knife attack that seriously wounded an Israeli near the West Bank settlement of Mezad, close to Hebron.
