After two days of manhunting, Israeli occupation forces shot and killed 19-year-old Omar Abu Laila, the alleged executor of the Salfit operation at the junction of Ariel and the intersection of Gite Avisar, on Tuesday night.

Hebrew sources reported, according to Days of Palestine, that Israeli forces surrounded a building where Omar Abu-Lila was staying and shot him dead, as he reportedly resisted his detention.

Since 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank and Jerusalem, more than 600,000 Israeli settlers have come to live in the illegal settlement built there.

The international community considers the establishment of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories to be illegal under international law, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”

Israeli settlers, under the protection of heavily armed forces, routinely attack Palestinians in the territories, especially in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, demolishing their homes and vandalizing their properties.