West bank raid: Palestinian teen killed by Israeli forces
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Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager and injured two other people in the West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the army described as a raid to arrest a “terror suspect”.
It comes amid surging violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent days, coinciding with the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jewish Passover and Christian Easter.
Mohammed Fayez Balhan, 15, was killed after being shot “with live occupation (Israeli) bullets in the head, chest and abdomen”, the ministry said.
An earlier statement said two people were injured by “occupation (Israeli) bullets”.
The Israeli army confirmed its forces were operating in the Aqabat Jaber camp near Jericho, saying soldiers were working “to apprehend a terror suspect”.
According to the army, soldiers responded with live fire after “suspects opened fire toward (soldiers), hurled explosive devices and Molotov cocktails”.
A suspect was taken in by security forces, the army added.
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