A Palestinian teenager has been injured in Israeli airstrikes in the northwestern West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian sources said.
Ahmed Zahi Dawood, 16, was wounded during clashes in the village of Beita, near Nablus, where anti-Jewish settlements often result in incidents with Israeli forces.
The teenager was injured in the head, the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the hospital in Nablus, where he was treated, announced.
The Israeli army announced yesterday that a soldier shot at a Palestinian man who was running towards him and threw “a suspicious object” at him, which “exploded” in the Jewish settlement of Eviatar, near Beita.
“The soldier acted to arrest the suspect by firing into the air and then fired at him,” the army said in a brief statement.
“One target was identified,” he said, adding that there were no injuries among the soldiers.
According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, this is the fourth Palestinian to be killed in Beita in a month. Hundreds of people attended the teenager’s funeral today.
Meanwhile, Palestinians have been protesting for weeks in the northern West Bank to protest the creation of the irregular Jewish settlement of Eviatar.
These irregular settlements are not recognized by Israel. Under international law, all Jewish settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are considered illegal.
Some 475,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in 1967 and home to more than 2.8 million Palestinians.
