JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during clashes with rioters in near Hebron in the West Bank.

The Palestinian man, Imad Jawabreh, 22, died in an Israeli hospital after suffering bullet wounds in his chest on Tuesday.

He was one of about 150 Palestinian rioters who threw rocks and firebombs at Israeli soldiers and their vehicles. He reportedly was preparing to throw a pipe bomb when he was shot.

The incident occurred after Israeli media reports that additional Israeli military battalions were deployed to the West Bank to protect security on the roads there in the wake of several terrorist attacks on both sides of the Green Line.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night held a meeting to discuss security in the wake of two terrorist attacks that day that killed a soldier in Tel Aviv and a young woman waiting at a traffic junction in Gush Etzion in the West Bank.

At the meeting – attended by Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, Public Defense Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz, Shin Bet security services Director Yoram Cohen, Israel Police Commissioner Insp.-Gen. Yohanan Danino and Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein – Netanyahu ordered that a series of steps be taken against terrorists including increasing the number of security forces on the ground and moving forward on the demolition of terrorists’ homes.

On Tuesday Yaalon called on Israelis to be alert for more terror attacks and to avoid visiting the Temple Mount in order to deescalate the situation.

“We’re in the midst of an escalation, and won’t allow it to widen,” Yaalon told reporters during a visit to soldiers in the West Bank, according to the Times of Israel. He also said he would “use a strong arm, including demolishing terrorists’ houses.”

Also on Tuesday, the tires of five Palestinian-owned cars were slashed in the Beit Safafa neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem and nearby the words “No cars, No Arabs” were spray painted, likely in response to recent attacks by Palestinian drivers on Israelis.