29 Mar 2024
Sunday 21 February 2016 - 18:37
Story Code : 202789

Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager in West Bank



Israeli military forces have fatally shot a young Palestinian man and critically injured another after they allegedly sought to carry out separate stabbing attacks in the occupied West Bank.

According to Palestinian media reports, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian youth in the town of Beita, located 13 kilometers (8.1miles) southeast ofNablus, on Sunday, when the latter purportedly headed towards the troopers carrying a knife, Arabic-language Maan news agency reported.

Israeli soldiers, in return, fired more than a dozen shots at the Palestinian teenager, severely wounding him. The teenager succumbed to his grave injuries shortly afterwards. There were no reports of injuries among Israeli troopers.

Separately, Israeli forces arrested an unnamed 14-year-old Palestinian boy in the town of Bani Naim,located 8 kilometers (5.0miles) east ofal-Khalil (Hebron), after shooting and injuring him in an alleged stabbing attack which moderately injured an Israeli soldier.



[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"] An Israeli soldier fires a tear gas canister towards Palestinian protesters during clashes in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on February 19, 2016. AFP[/caption]

The occupied Palestinian territories have been the scene of heightened tensions. The latest wave of tensions was triggered by Israels imposition in August 2015 of restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam after Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina.

The restrictions have enraged Palestinians, who are also angry at increasing violence by Israeli settlers frequently storming the al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Palestinians say the Tel Aviv regime seeks to change the status quo of the compound.

More than 180 Palestinians, including children and women, have lost their lives at the hands of Israeli forces since the beginning of last October.

By Press TV

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