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Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian teenager throughout a army raid close to the occupied West Financial institution metropolis of Jericho, the Palestinian well being ministry says.
The ministry mentioned 15-year-old Mohammad Balhan sustained gunshot wounds to his head, chest and stomach.
The Israeli army mentioned its forces operated within the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp, subsequent to Jericho, on Monday to apprehend Palestinians suspected of involvement in assaults in opposition to Israelis.
The army mentioned that through the raid suspects opened hearth and hurled explosives at its forces, who responded with stay hearth and hit a number of the suspects, however no troopers had been wounded.
Israeli-Palestinian violence has surged this yr, with frequent army raids and violence by Israeli settlers within the occupied West Financial institution amid a spate of Palestinian assaults.
Greater than 90 Palestinians and a minimum of 18 Israelis and foreigners have been killed since January.
Tensions have been particularly excessive following Israeli police raids on the Al-Aqsa mosque compound final week, which triggered rocket assaults on Israel that had been met with Israeli strikes in Gaza, south Lebanon and Syria.
A witness mentioned he noticed some folks hurling rocks on the army after they raided the camp.
“I had simply left my home after I noticed army forces and other people throwing stones,” mentioned Fayez Balhan, the teenager’s father.
After carrying one other wounded particular person to an ambulance, the daddy seen a younger man mendacity on the bottom, who turned out to be his son.
“They shot him within the head,” the teenager’s aunt Maysoon instructed Reuters, crying. “What’s going to occur to our folks? What’s going to occur to us?”
The Palestinian Prisoners Affiliation mentioned the Israeli army arrested a minimum of two folks through the raid.
“We urge the world to carry this (Israeli) authorities accountable for its crimes, which happen each day,” Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh mentioned at the beginning of the weekly authorities session.
In a separate a part of the West Financial institution, 1000’s of Israelis, together with authorities ministers, marched in direction of the evacuated outpost of Evyatar in assist of settlement growth.
Palestinians need an unbiased state within the West Financial institution and Gaza with East Jerusalem as its capital – territories Israel captured in a 1967 warfare.
US-sponsored statehood talks have been stalled since 2014 whereas Jewish settlements have expanded, developments which Palestinians say have undermined the probabilities of a viable state being established.
– Reuters
