Israeli troops shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy early on Tuesday and wounded four others, a Palestinian official said.
Wajih Ahmad, head of the Beit Ur al-Tahta local council in the West Bank, said the teen, Mahmoud Badran, was killed when the car he was traveling in was fired upon by an Israeli military patrol. The hospital in the Occupied West Bank city of Ramallah said another person was moderately wounded and three others were lightly wounded.
The Israeli military had no immediate response. Israeli media said the shooting was aimed at rioters on the scene of a rock-hurling incident toward Israeli vehicles on a busy road.
Since the start of October, Israeli occupation forces have killed at least 200 Palestinians. Meanwhile, almost daily stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks by frustrated and unarmed Palestinians have killed 25 Israelis and a US citizen.
The assaults were once near-daily incidents but they have become less frequent in recent weeks.
Also Tuesday, the Israeli military demolished the home of a Palestinian who stabbed to death an American tourist and war veteran in an attack earlier this year.
The troops entered the West Bank village of Hajjah to knock down the residence of Bashar Masalha. In March, he killed Taylor Force and wounded 10 others in a stabbing attack on a Tel Aviv beachfront promenade.
Force was a Vanderbilt University graduate student visiting Israel during a school trip. He previously graduated from West Point and served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Masalha was killed by police after the attack.
Israel says it carries out housing demolitions to deter future attacks. The Palestinians consider it a form of collective punishment.
*The story was edited by Ahram Online.
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