(Ramallah) The Palestinian Health Ministry announced the death of a teenager on Saturday, shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, with an Israeli army source confirming that troops opened fire during a “counterterrorism” operation.
Abdul Rahman Sultan Khatatba, 16, was killed by Israeli forces in the northern West Bank town of Beit Furik, near the city of Nablus, the ministry said in a statement posted on Facebook.
According to the official Palestinian agency Wafa, two other people were injured during this raid, a 45-year-old man and a 16-year-old teenager, shot in the thigh and taken to hospital.
“Israeli forces stormed the town, firing live ammunition at residents,” the news agency reported, citing residents.
Questioned by AFP, an official source within the Israeli army assured that during a “counterterrorism activity in the Nablus sector, dozens of suspects threw stones in the direction of the forces of security, who responded with riot control devices and live fire.
The West Bank has experienced an outbreak of violence for two years, exacerbated by the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, which was triggered by an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement against Israel on October 7.
Since that date, at least 546 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank occupied by Israeli soldiers or settlers, according to Palestinian authorities, and at least 14 Israelis have been killed there in Palestinian attacks or attacks, according to official Israeli figures. .