Abdallah Azzam Shalaldeh, a Palestinian related to a man suspected of being behind an anti-Israeli attack was killed by undercover Israeli agents in a West Bank hospital.
A Palestinian related to a man suspected of being behind an anti-Israeli attack was killed by undercover Israeli agents in a West Bank hospital on Wednesday night, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
"Abdallah Azzam Shalaldeh, aged 27, was killed by a unit of (undercover agents) at the Hebron hospital," said the Palestinian health ministry.
Israel's internal security services confirmed the raid, saying that Israeli forces fired when the man thought to be close to Azzam Shalaldeh, who carried out a knife attack in October tried to resist arrest.
According to the Shin Bet security service, Shalaldeh is "from a family of Hamas militants" who fled the scene of the October 25 knife attack that seriously wounded an Israeli near the West Bank settlement of Mezad, close to Hebron.