Ramallah: Israeli troops shot dead a 17-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank during a stone-throwing incident Monday near the northern city of Nablus, sources on both sides said.
The teenager was killed near the Tapuah colony, south of Nablus, and a 19-year-old was wounded in the same incident, they added.
Around 20 Palestinians have been killed by the army in the West Bank since June, according to an AFP tally. On December 16, a 21-year-ol Palestinian was killed in an overnight Israeli military raid in the Qalandiya refugee camp near Ramallah in the West Bank. Mahmoud Adwan was killed when occupation troops entered the camp to make an arrest, triggering clashes with residents, the sources said.
The regime’s army confirmed that its special forces had launched a raid on the camp.
Witnesses said residents of Qalandia refugee camp threw stones at the Israeli soldiers and the man Adwan was watching from the roof of his home when he was shot.
He was dead on arrival at Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, with a bullet wound to the head, sources at the complex said.
The incident came with tensions running high in the occupied territories after months of unrest, and followed the death of a senior Palestinian official a week prior in a confrontation with Israeli troops.
Ziad Abu Ain, was exposed to huge quantities of tear gas and suffered a serious blow to his diaphragm at the hands of Israeli occupation forces before he died on December 10, according to the Palestinian General Authority of Civil Affairs.
The autopsy conducted jointly by Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli teams, showed that the Palestinian minister for Colonial and Segregation Affairs, died after inhaling tear gas which was extremely poisonous. Hussain Al Shaikh, the Palestinian Minister of the General Authority of Civil Affairs said that the Jordanian and Palestinian forensic teams signed the autopsy report but the Israeli experts refused to. However, they verbally agreed on the cause of death.