A young man was killed today, Monday, by Israeli occupation forces, after allegedly carrying out a stabbing operation near Hebron.

According to local sources, the young man, Osama Ghassan Najm, from the town of Reina, Nazareth District, was shot inside an Israeli military base, where he was working.

The Israeli army spokesman's statement said that a contractor worker at the Lachish air base attempted to carry out a stabbing attack, and the suspect was "neutralized" by the base's security guard, and there were no injuries among the soldiers.

The occupation forces shot the young man, claiming that he had infiltrated an Israeli military base in the Beit Jibrin area near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.