The Palestinian health ministry said Saturday that Israeli forces shot dead a teenager in the occupied West Bank, while the military said troops had fired in response to a threat.
The Ramallah-based health ministry identified the 15-year-old as Adham Sayed Saleh Dahman who died of “serious wounds caused by Israeli forces’ gunfire,” Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Wafa said he was killed during a military operation Friday evening in the Dheisheh camp, south of Bethlehem.
Dahman was shot in the abdomen, the report said, noting that another Palestinian was also wounded in the incident.
The military said troops were operating overnight in the Bethlehem area when a “violent riot developed,” involving stone-throwing at its soldiers.
The troops “responded with riot dispersal means, including live fire, in response to the threat,” the military told AFP, confirming that one Palestinian was killed and another wounded.
Violence in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, has surged since the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by the Islamist movement Hamas, which triggered the war in Gaza.
According to an AFP tally based on figures from the Palestinian health ministry, at least 1,054 Palestinians — including many militants as well as civilians — have been killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war.
At least 46 Israelis, both civilians and soldiers, have been killed in the same territory in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations, according to official Israeli data.
