Israeli soldier dies in stone-throwing incident

JERUSALEM, Palestine An Israeli soldier was killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank when a Palestinian man struck him in the head with a stone, the Israel army said Tuesday. A military statement said the soldier, Amit Bin Egal, 21, from the army's Golani Brigade was killed during an overnight raid carried out to arrest a Palestinian in the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. The statement did not provide further details. The Israeli army frequently conducts wide-ranging arrest campaigns across the occupied West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians. *Writing by Zehra Nur Duz