Jenin and Ramallah, West Bank(CNN)In the early hours of September 6, Mohammed Sabaaneh, 29, was live on TikTok, filming clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians in the West Bank town of Jenin.
Young men seen in the video seem indifferent to the gunshots ringing out around them.
"I just hope one of them gets shot so we never see any of the slime balls again in the neighborhood," Sabaaneh says, referring to the Israeli forces.
But soon after an ambulance drives by, the stream is cut short. This was the moment Sabaaneh was shot, says Ahmad Abu Tabikh, a cousin who was with him.
Speaking in their family home, Sabaaneh's mother, Saeda Abu Tabikh, grew emotional as she explained that her son was just documenting the clashes.
"I say it to all mothers around me, it is not safe here at all. If your son is out when clashes are going on you should consider your son dead," she said.
Sabaaneh became one of the more than 97 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces so far this year in the West Bank -- making it the deadliest year in the West Bank for Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers since 2015. Israel claims most killed were clashing violently with soldiers.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement it came under attack by "rioters" the night Sabaaneh died and is examining the circumstances around his death. Although his cousin displays a photo of Sabaaneh with a gun, a common pose for young men from Jenin, nothing in his video suggests he was armed when he was killed.
The West Bank, which has been under Israeli military occupation since 1967, is simmering. Between the near-nightly Israeli raids, the clashes, the ensuing deaths, arrests and a political vacuum under an increasingly unpopular Palestinian Authority, there are fears it could soon boil over into a third Intifada, or uprising.
For months, Israel has been regularly raiding cities in the West Bank, saying it is targeting militants and their weapon caches before they have the chance to cross into Israel and carry out attacks. The operation, dubbed 'Breaking the Wave' by the IDF, was launched after a series of attacks earlier in the year killed 17 within Israel, three of whom were police or soldiers. One Israeli security guard and two Israeli soldiers have been killed in attacks in or near the West Bank since the beginning of the year, bringing the total to 20.
Israeli officials say they have stepped up the military operations because the Palestinian Security Services aren't doing enough, and say they've prevented more than 300 attacks as a result.
We demand that the Palestinian Authority not only speak out against terrorism, but also act against it. The spread of weapons and lack of governance are harming both the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Authority itself," Israel's Defense Minister Benny Gantz said earlier this month in a statement. "We will not allow armed men who seek to murder Israelis, to roam around freely. We will pursue and stop them."