While Gaza is now in the seventh day of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, an hour and a half by car from the besieged strip, a Palestinian was killed overnight in Hebron during clashes with Israeli forces as the army continued a hunt for men wanted in connection to the abduction and killing of three Israeli teens one month ago.

The killing of the teens, who were abducted while hitchhiking in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc June 12, catalyzed Israeli air strikes on Gaza, which have now killed more than 170, and rocket fire into Israel. But the war on the Mediterranean front did not put a stop to the mounting conflict in the West Bank. The region is still in peaked tension, not seen since the second Intifada.

Munir Ahmad Hamdan al-Badarin, 22, was shot with live-fire in Hebron last night. Palestinians emergency responders were ready to take the stricken man to a medical facility. However Israeli forces refused to allow an ambulance to enter the area for 40 minutes, according to the International Middle East Media Center: “Local medics arrived at the scene before the young man died of his wounds, but Israeli soldiers prevented them from reaching him, until he died nearly 40 minutes later,” while awaiting transfer to a hospital.

The clashes that left al-Badarin dead began in the early morning hours when Israeli forces blocked off the region around the homes of two men wanted for kidnapping the Israelis. Marwan Qawasmeh and Amar Abu Aisha’s houses are a few streets apart. In the weeks between the youths’ abduction and the discovery of their remains on June 30th, the army came to the houses three times for overnight searches. In the first two searches, men in the families were arrested—a common enough tactic of the Israeli army when trying to pressure an assumed suspect. Israeli courts have backed up the procedure.