US EditionPalestinians mourn teenager shot dead in the occupied West Bank
Medics said the boy was shot in the abdomen during a raid that also wounded two people and led to at least one arrest.
- On Thursday, mourners carried the body of Ibrahim Al-Khayyat through Hebron, the West Bank's largest city, following his death after being shot in the chest and abdomen on Wednesday.
- Israel's military stated soldiers fired on Palestinians during a Hebron operation after individuals hurled rocks, while relatives told The Associated Press Al-Khayyat was heading to a minimarket when shot.
- The Ramallah-based Palestinian Ministry of Health reported Abdulhalim Hamad died during a separate Israeli raid in Silwad, northeast of Ramallah; Al-Khayyat was the second Palestinian killed Wednesday.
- These two fatalities bring the total to more than 40 Palestinians killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the occupied West Bank this year, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
- Mumtaz Shabaneh, Al-Khayyat's schoolteacher, described the killing as part of a wider pattern of violence against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, noting three teenagers were killed last week.
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