A 20-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead by the IOF in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced Thursday evening.

Medical sources said that the young man, Shawkat Khaled Awad, 20, died of critical wounds, which he sustained with live bullets fired by the occupation, which hit his head and abdomen, in the town of Beit Ummar.