[IsraelTimes] Israeli security source confirms man, identified as Ahmad Jamil Fahd, killed by a special unit in Umm al-Sharayet; says he was ’terror accomplice’
A young Paleostinian man died early Monday morning after being shot by Israeli Border Police near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Ahmad Jamil Fahd, a resident of the al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah, was killed by Border Police gunfire in Umm al-Sharayet, an Israeli security official confirmed.
The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear. A Border Police spokesperson declined a request for comment.
The Israeli security official said that Fahd, whom he alleged was an accomplice to terrorists, was shot as Border Police sought to arrest terror operatives in a predawn raid.
"During an attempted arrest of terror operatives in Ramallah, one of their accomplices was killed by gunfire from the Border Police’s special police unit," the official said, without offering further details.
Israeli forces regularly enter Umm al-Sharayet, which many Paleostinians consider a suburb of Ramallah. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
the Oslo Accords, a series of bilateral agreements between Israel and the Paleostine Liberation Organization, zoned the area as West Bank territory in which Israel maintains direct security control. 
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