Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man at West Bank checkpoint Saturday, marking the second time in a week that soldiers have opened fire at that location.
A spokesman for the Israeli military told CNN that a taxi pulled up to the Nablus area checkpoint and a Palestinian man made his way toward Israeli security personnel yelling "God is great" in Arabic while carrying a "suspicious object" in his hands.
Soldiers began an "arrest procedure" and yelled at the man to stop and fired warning shots, but the man did not stop advancing, the spokesman said.
"The soldiers were left with no choice but to fire at him," the spokesman said.
The man later died from his wounds. Two explosive devices and a knife were found on his body, the Israeli military said.
The official Palestinian state news agency, WAFA, reported that Palestinian medical teams were denied access to the man.
A Palestinian witness at the scene said that before the shooting, he observed the man heading toward the checkpoint and ignoring soldier's commands to turn back though he did not offer any details on whether the man might have been carrying some sort of explosive device.
The shooting comes a week after another Palestinian man was shot and killed at the same checkpoint under disputed circumstances.
The Israeli military said Sunday that a man had approached soldiers at the checkpoint from an unauthorized lane holding a glass bottle. The military said soldiers called on him to stop, but that the man did not comply and continued to approach the soldiers. CNN
