The Palestinian Authority said Friday that Israeli forces shot dead a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank, while the military said he had been throwing stones at Israeli cars on a road.
The authority’s health ministry said it had been informed of the killing of Fahd Zidan Oweis. He was “shot dead by the (Israeli) forces at dawn today in the town of al-Lubban al-Sharqiyya in the Nablus governorate. His body has been withheld,” it said.
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The Israeli army told AFP that during a counterterror operation in the area it “eliminated a masked terrorist” who had “hurled rocks towards Israeli vehicles on a central road, endangering lives.”
In a separate incident in the village of Jibiya, north of Ramallah, Palestinians said Israeli settlers set fire to a room inside a mosque and torched two cars parked in its courtyard.
