RAMALLAH: Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Wednesday.
The death follows the killing of a 37-year-old man near Ramallah in a separate incident earlier in the day.
"A child arrived at the Red Crescent Hospital in Hebron with a live-bullet wound to the abdomen. He was 14 years old and was pronounced dead," the Red Crescent said, adding in a separate statement that he had been shot by "Israeli army bullets."
The Red Crescent said that another person was wounded in the thigh by gunfire during the raid.
Israel's military told AFP it was looking into the incident.
The Ramallah-based Palestinian health ministry identified the deceased as Abdel Fattah Al-Khayyat, stating the teenager was 16, not 14.
The ministry earlier identified a man killed in a raid in Silwad, east of Ramallah, as 37-year-old Abdel Halim Hammad.
Official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Hammad was killed in his home when soldiers raided it at night.
Wafa added that Hammad’s brother, Mohammad Hammad, was also killed by Israeli forces in 2021, with his body held by Israeli authorities since.
The Israeli military said in a statement that during the raid, “two terrorists attacked two IDF soldiers, who were injured and evacuated to receive medical treatment at a hospital.”
“The soldiers responded by opening fire. One terrorist was eliminated, and the other was neutralized and apprehended by the soldiers,” the statement added.
Violence has surged in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023.
According to an AFP tally based on Palestinian health ministry figures, Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 1,068 Palestinians — many of them militants, but also scores of civilians — in the West Bank since then.
Official Israeli figures say at least 46 Israelis, including soldiers and civilians, have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations in the same period.
