This article was originally published by the Ma'an News Agency and is republished with permission.

Invading Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 67-year-old Palestinian farmer in the northern West Bank town of Al-Yamun, near Jenin, on Wednesday morning, witnesses said.

Witnesses said the man, Muhammad Abahra, heard noise near his agricultural storehouse, and as he went out with a hand lantern to check, he saw Israeli forces besieging the area and ransacking his neighbors' homes. They immediately shot him dead.

The witnesses added that Israeli forces proceeded to storm several homes in the area, leaving Abahra to bleed to death.

Abahra's son, Warrad, was also killed by Israeli forces in July 2005.

Separately, Israeli forces seized 11 Palestinians during overnight raids in Nablus, Qalqilia, Jenin and Ramallah, in the West Bank. They claimed a Kalashnikov machine gun was found with one of the Palestinians arrested in Salfit, in the northern West Bank.