Clashes near Palestine’s West Bank city of Jenin resulted in the death of a Palestinian teenager due to actions by Israeli troops on Tuesday, August 22. Israeli forces entered the city for an arrest operation following the killing of an Israeli settler on Monday.
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager near the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, as violence surged in the occupied territory.
Meanwhile, in the southern West Bank, troops made two arrests in the deadly Monday shooting of a settler near the city of Hebron.
“Othman Mohammed Abu Khurog, 17, died after he was shot in the head by the occupation (Israeli forces),” the Palestinian health ministry said.
Abu Khurog was killed when clashes erupted in the small town of Zababdeh, southeast of Jenin, which Israeli forces had entered to make an arrest, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
The Israeli army said troops had opened fire after “explosive devices” were thrown at them. “A hit was identified,” it said in a statement.
Israeli troops routinely carry out incursions into areas such as Jenin which are nominally under the civil and security control of president Mahmud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority.
Abu Khurog’s death comes amid rising violence in the West Bank.
On Monday, Israeli settler Batsheva Nigri was shot dead from a passing vehicle while travelling in a car near Hebron with her daughter and a man.
Two Palestinian residents of Hebron suspected of taking part in the shooting were arrested on Tuesday as troops pressed a manhunt for the woman’s killers, closing off roads in the area, the army said.
Katrine Houmøller, with AFP
