Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian in Raid of West Bank Camp

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JERUSALEM — Israeli special forces fatally shot one Palestinian man and wounded another in the Qalandia refugee camp in the West Bank when clashes broke out during an overnight military operation, the Israeli military said Tuesday.

The military said soldiers opened fire after explosive devices were hurled at them.

Palestinian officials identified the dead man as Mahmoud Abdallah Edwan, 21. They said he was shot in the head during an arrest raid in the camp.

The office of the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, condemned the killing in a statement carried by Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, and called for international intervention to end what it called “Israeli crimes against unarmed Palestinians.”

The event came at a diplomatically delicate time, with the Palestinian leadership considering tabling a United Nations Security Council resolution setting a two-year deadline for an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories.