Occupied Jerusalem: A Palestinian boy was killed on Tuesday during a clash with Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank on the outskirts of occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian health ministry said.
Muhey Al Tabakhi, 12, died in a Palestinian hospital of a wound inflicted by a projectile that struck his chest and caused heart failure, a ministry spokesman said.
An Israeli police spokeswoman claimed paramilitary Border Police officers used only tear gas and stun grenades in the clash at Al Ram after a petrol bomb was thrown at occupation forces and claimed that initial details at hand suggested there had been no firing.
Earlier, a Palestinian assailant who stabbed two Israeli soldiers and wounded them lightly in an incident near the occupied West Bank town of Hebron on Monday, died of wounds in an Israeli hospital, officials said.
Since October, Israel has killed at least 204 Palestinians, 138 of whom it said were assailants. Palestinian street attacks have killed at least 33 Israelis and two visiting Americans.
Others were killed during clashes and protests.
Palestinian stabbings, shootings, rock throwing and car rammings against mostly-uniformed Israelis that began late last year and included almost daily incidents have tapered off significantly and attacks have become less frequent.
Palestinian leaders say assailants have acted out of desperation over the collapse of peace talks in 2014 and Israeli colony expansion in occupied territory that Palestinians seek for an independent state. Most countries view the settlements as illegal. Israel disputes this.
Israel claims incitement in the Palestinian media and personal problems at home have been important factors that have spurred assailants, often teenagers, to launch attacks.
Tensions over Israeli incursions into Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque have also fuelled the violence.
