RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank Friday, and the military said the man attacked a solider before he was shot.

A Palestinian man was fatally shot by Israeli forces at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military claims the man attacked a soldier after arriving in a stolen vehicle.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank were not an obstacle to peace with the Palestinians in an interview published Friday, testing ties between Washington and its main Middle East ally.

Israeli forces killed a 29-year-old Palestinian near a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, after the man allegedly attacked an Israeli soldier and attempted to steal his weapon.

Israeli forces have fatally shot a Palestinian man at the Rantis checkpoint west of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian health ministry and the Israeli army. Mahdi Biadsa,

Israeli authorities arrested Islam Faroukh in December on suspicion of carrying out the bombings, part of a more than year-long surge in violence in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The army released video footage showing troops closing off the area and carrying out controlled explosions,