Four Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in two days as tensions flare
Israeli troops shot dead a teen in the West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the fourth Palestinian killed in the occupied territory in two days.
The ministry identified the slain Palestinian as 17-year-old Odeh Odeh, who was hit in the chest by what it said was an Israeli bullet near the village of Al-Madiya, west of Ramallah.
The Israeli army said "three suspects threw a firebomb" at soldiers "operating near the security barrier" adjacent to Al-Madiya.
"The soldiers responded with fire toward the suspects, and a hit was identified," the army said.
It came hours after a Palestinian man was killed during a clash with Israeli forces conducting an arrest operation in the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem.
On Wednesday, a woman approaching soldiers with a knife was shot, and later that day a man was killed in an Israeli raid in the northern West Bank.
The Israeli security forces have stepped up their operations in the West Bank in recent months, carrying out almost daily raids to arrest suspects after a spate of deadly attacks inside Israel.
The army said troops had entered Dheisheh to arrest a Palestinian "suspected of terrorist activities" and were met with volleys of petrol bombs and cement blocks.
They responded with live rounds.
Palestinian news agency Wafa said that six Palestinians were wounded in the Israeli raid.
