Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the army said was a response to stone-throwing.
“Mostafa Amer Sabah, 16, was killed by the occupation (Israeli) bullets in the town of Teqoa,” a statement from the ministry said, without detailing the circumstances of the fatal shooting.
The Israeli military said troops fired on Palestinians who “continued to hurl rocks towards the soldiers” in the town.
An AFP photographer saw relatives at a Bethlehem hospital gathering around Sabah’s body, which was wrapped in a Palestinian flag.
The teenager’s death comes a day after Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian the army accused of attempting to carry out a car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank.
Friday’s shooting brings to 100 the number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so far this year.
Nineteen Israelis, one Ukrainian and one Italian have been killed over the same period, according to an AFP count based on official sources from the two sides.
These figures include combatants as well as civilians, and, on the Israeli side, include three members of the Arab minority.