On Saturday, a young man was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces for allegedly attempting to carry out a stabbing attack near the 300 checkpoint, southwest of Jenin.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the young man approached the place on a bicycle carrying a knife, and tried to stab one of the soldiers, but he was shot and killed. According to the claim of an Israeli military spokesman.

Later, the Red Crescent received the body of the martyr, Ahmed Muhammad Tabsir Atatreh, from the town of Ya`bad.

The head of the village council of Toura, Tariq Qabaa, told Al-Quds.com, quoting eyewitnesses, that the martyr was shot while crossing the checkpoint on a bicycle on his way back to his town, Ya`bad, and that the shooting was rapid and sudden without justification.

He mentioned that the martyr used to pass through the area to reach the land owned by his family behind the apartheid wall, where he works permanently.