Palestinians say Israeli fire kills 15-year-old in West Bank

The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli troops shot dead a 15-year-old boy in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the second teenager killed in three days.

"The child Rayan Tamer Houshiyeh was killed after being shot in the neck by soldiers in the town of Al-Yamoun, northwest of Jenin," the Ramallah-based ministry said.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said that its teams had handled "a very critical case" in Al Yamoun involving the teenager, before pronouncing him dead.

The army told AFP that it was "looking into" the events in Al Yamoun.

A boy mourns over the body of a man killed a day earlier while attempting to get aid at a distribution point in Gaza City. AFP

On Monday, the health ministry announced that Israeli fire had killed a 13-year-old it identified as Ammar Hamayel in the West Bank town of Kafr Malik near Ramallah.

On June 3, the army confirmed it had killed a 14-year-old who threw rocks in the town of Sinjil.

In a similar incident in April, a teenager who held US citizenship was shot dead in the town of Turmus Ayya, with the Israeli military saying it had killed a "terrorist" who threw rocks at cars.

Sinjil and Turmus Ayya lie adjacent to each other on either side of a main road.

Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967, and violence in the territory has soared since the Hamas attack of October 2023 triggered the Gaza war.

Since then, Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 941 Palestinians, according to the health ministry.

Over the same period, at least 35 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations, according to Israeli figures.

Agence France-Presse