A Palestinian teenager was killed Tuesday during an Israeli army raid on a refugee camp in the northern West Bank, Palestinian officials said.
The death was the latest in a nearly year-long surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence that shows no sign of abating.
The Israeli army said it carried out raids in the occupied West Bank overnight and that during an operation in the Faraa refugee camp, a person approached troops with an explosive device. The army said the soldiers shot the person.
The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported that local residents clashed with Israeli soldiers, who fired at them.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 17-year-old Mahmoud Al-Aydi died of a gunshot wound to the head.
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A 17-year-old Palestinian was shot in the head during an Israeli army raid in the West Bank. (FoxNews)
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Tensions have been rising for months as Israel has carried out nightly arrests in the West Bank, which were sparked by a series of Palestinian attacks on Israelis last spring. Some 30 people have been killed in Israel by Palestinians in 2022, and at least 12 others have been killed in attacks so far in 2023.
On Monday, an Israeli border police officer died after he was stabbed to death by a Palestinian teenager in east Jerusalem. Police said a security guard opened fire, apparently shooting the first sergeant. Asil Sud.
Su’ad, a Bedouin Arab serving in Israel’s paramilitary police force, will be buried in northern Israel on Tuesday.
Nearly 150 Palestinians were killed last year in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, making it the deadliest year in those areas since 2004, according to figures from the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. At least 48 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops since the beginning of this year.
Israel says most of the dead have been militants, but others, including youth protesting the incursions and others not involved in the fighting, have also been killed.
Israel says the military incursions are aimed at dismantling militant networks and thwarting future attacks, while the Palestinians see them as a further entrenchment of Israel’s 55-year occupation.
Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war, territories the Palestinians claim for their long-awaited independent state.
