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The Palestinian Health Ministry said Saturday that Israeli forces shot and killed a young man in the occupied West Bank.

The ministry said Musab Nofal, 18, was hit with a bullet in the chest and died at hospital in the city of . Another Palestinian was also seriously wounded.

The Israeli military said Nofal and the second Palestinian were hurling stones at Israeli vehicles traveling on a oad near Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, damaging several cars. Soldiers aimed live fire toward the rock throwers, it added.

This is the latest in a wave of Israeli escalation in the West Bank and east Jerusalem that has killed more than 130 Palestinians this year, making since the U.N. started tracking fatalities in 2005.

The latest escalationÌýcame as a political shift is underway in Israel after national elections, with former longtime Prime Minister set to return to power in a coalition government made up of far-right allies, including the extremist lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir, who in response to the incidents said Israel would soon take a tougher approach to attackers.

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