A Palestinian teenager succumbed to his wounds overnight from Friday to Saturday after being shot hours earlier by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.
Mohammad Hamad, 16, was shot and wounded by Israeli soldiers near the village of Silwad, near Ramallah in the northern West Bank, and died a few hours later, an official told AFP. councilor of Silwad and Palestinian security sources.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment.
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The teenager was near a road leading to the settlement of Ofra, neighboring Silwad, when he was injured by Israeli soldiers, the councilman said.
Since the end of March, the Israeli security forces have increased operations in Israel and the occupied West Bank following a series of attacks perpetrated by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs in Israel and the West Bank in which nineteen people, mostly civilians , were killed.
During these Israeli army operations, at least 46 Palestinians and three Israeli Arab attackers were killed, partly members of armed groups, but also civilians, including a journalist covering an operation in Jenin.
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