Israeli shoots dead Palestinian teen after settlers enter West Bank village, officials say

An Israeli man guarding a group of Jewish settlers who walked onto Palestinian village land on Friday opened fire ‌towards Palestinians who confronted them, killing 17-year-old Karim Shalaldeh, and wounding ​a 70-year-old man, ⁠officials said.

In a separate incident in Jenin, 58-year-old Fathi Zidan Hazem, "died from injuries sustained after being shot by Israeli forces early on Friday," the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement, adding that Israel was withholding his body.

The incident in the occupied West ‌Bank village of Sa'ir ‌followed the latest in what the Israeli military describes as "unauthorised hikes" by settlers, who enter the outskirts of villages in what Palestinians ‌view as an act of intimidation.

Relatives of Palestinian Karim Shalaldeh, 17, cry over his body at a hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron, on Friday. AP

Palestinian officials said a 17-year-old boy died after being ‌shot in the chest. The condition of the 70-year-old was not immediately clear.

The village of Sa'ir sits near the city of ⁠Hebron in a southern West Bank area under Palestinian Authority civil control and where Israelis are generally prohibited from entering.

The West Bank, home to 3 ​million ‌Palestinians and some 500,000 settlers, has seen a rise in ‌settler violence and seizures of land and resources. A siege by settlers of homes in the village of Qusra this week drew international condemnation.

UN ‌bodies and ‌most countries view the settlements ⁠as illegal under international law regarding military occupations. Israel disputes ‌this, citing biblical links to the area.

Overnight, in Jenin in the north, Israeli troops shot and killed a ⁠Palestinian man after raiding his home, Palestinian officials said.

Hazem was a retired colonel in the Palestinian National Security Forces.

AFP footage from the scene on Friday showed a pool of blood and bullets scattered among groceries in the family's home.

A Palestinian eyewitness, who declined to give her name to AFP, said Israeli forces raided her neighbour's house in the early hours and told Hazem to raise his hands, which he refused to do.

"He then attacked them with a knife, and they shot him seven times in front of his 10-year-old son. They dragged him down the stairs and took him with them," she said.

Agencies