Palestinian stone-thrower shot dead
Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank shot dead a Palestinian teenager who hurled rocks at a patrol yesterday, the army said.
"Rocks were hurled at the soldiers, wounding one of them lightly," a spokeswoman told AFP, adding that the soldiers first fired warning shots "and then (fired) toward the suspect resulting in his death."
The incident occurred in the Beit Ummar area near the city of Hebron. The Palestinian health ministry named the dead stronethrower as Khaled Bahar, 15.
Violence since October 2015 has killed 235 Palestinians, 36 Israelis, two Americans, one Jordanian, an Eritrean and a Sudanese national, according to an AFP count.
Most of the Palestinians killed were carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks, according to Israeli authorities. Others were shot dead during protests or clashes, while some were killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip.
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