JERUSALEM: Israeli soldiers fired at Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Thursday and Palestinian officials said a Palestinian teenager was killed. Palestinian health and municipal officials said Mohammad Hamdan, 16, was killed by Israeli forces and two other Palestinians were wounded. The Hamas group issued a statement mourning his death.
Imrad Zahran, chairman of the local council of Hamdan’s village, said the three youths were near a road used by Jewish settlers when the soldiers shot them.–Agencies