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Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in West Bank: Palestinian sources

25 June 2022, MVT 12:24
Palestinian demonstrators move away from Israeli tear gas while protesting attempts by Israeli settlers from the settlement of Eli to reportedly take control of a water spring in the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on June 24, 2022. -- Photo: Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP
25 June 2022, MVT 12:24

A Palestinian teenager died from his wounds hours after being shot by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian sources said Saturday.

Mohammad Hamad, 16, was shot and wounded on Friday evening near the village of Silwad, near Ramallah in the northern West Bank, and died hours later, a Silwad councillor told AFP. The Israeli military did not immediately comment.

The teenager was near a road leading to the neighbouring settlement of Ofra when he was wounded by Israeli soldiers, the councillor said.

His death comes amid a spike in Israeli-Palestinian violence.

Nineteen people, mostly Israeli civilians -- including 18 inside Israel and a Jewish settler -- have been killed in attacks by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs since late March.

Israeli security forces have responded with raids inside Israel and in the West Bank in which three Israeli Arab attackers and at least 46 Palestinians have been killed.

Among those killed were suspected militants but also non-combatants, including an Al Jazeera journalist who was covering a raid in Jenin.

© Agence France-Presse

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