PALESTINE – A Palestinian man was on Wednesday beaten to death by Israeli army in occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said in a statement that its teams received the body of a 57-year-old man in Ramallah from the Israeli side after he was hit on his head.

Witnesses said that the Palestinian man, from the town of Zababdeh, south of Jenin in the northern West Bank, was beaten while he was crossing an Israeli separation wall to reach his work inside Israel.

Tel Aviv erected the separation wall between the occupied West Bank and Israel in 2002, citing security concerns.

In 2004, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion declaring the barrier illegal and contrary to international law.

Israeli army forces regularly assault Palestinian civilians approaching the barrier, which human rights groups decry as the “apartheid wall.”

According to Palestinian figures, more than 1,051 people were killed in the West Bank, around 10,300 wounded, and over 20,000 arrested, including 1,600 children, since the Israeli war on Gaza began in October 2023.