A young Palestinian was killed, Monday afternoon, by Israeli forces, during confrontations in the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah.

According to local sources, the young man, Obaida Hassan Abdel Rahman Hamed (18 years old), died as a result of being shot in the chest by live bullets.

With the death of the young man Hamed, the number of killed in the West Bank since this morning has risen to five, and since the start of the aggression on the seventh of last October to 378.