A man stands near graffiti on a mosque wall, which Palestinians say was written by Israeli settlers, near Birzeit in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on May 15, 2026.
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The Palestinian Authority said on Friday (May 15, 2026) 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. Published - May 15, 2026 10:54 pm IST
