AhlulBayt News Agency: Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian teenager with US citizenship near the city of Ramallah in the West Bank as the campaign of death, destruction and abduction rages on in the the occupied territory.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the victim as Omar Mohammad Rabea, 14, saying he was killed on Sunday as a result of Israeli gunfire on the outskirts of the town of Turmus Ayya.
During the incident, two other Palestinian boys, ages 14 and 15, were shot in the lower abdomen and thigh respectively.
One of the injured boys Abdul Rahman Shehadeh said he was shot by a soldier while collecting fruit.
The second was identified as Ayoub Asaad by his father Ahed Asaad. He confirmed that his son had a US passport.
Ahed Assad said that an ambulance that took his wounded son to hospital was stopped by the occupation soldiers.
In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry denounced the incident as an "extra-judicial killing" by Israeli forces.
"Israel’s continued impunity as an illegal occupying power encourages it to commit further crimes," it added.
However, the regime’s military claimed that it had targeted three “terrorists” who were hurling rocks at Israeli cars.
Additionally on Sunday, Israeli troops raided the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northwestern West Bank.
They forced several residents of the camp’s Jabal al-Salihin area to leave their homes.
They also abducted a young man after assaulting him near the entrance to the camp’s al-Manshieh neighborhood.
Israel has ramped up its West Bank violence since October 7, 2023, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
Since then, at least 944 Palestinians have been killed, nearly 7,000 others injured, and over 15,800 detained in the attacks by the Israeli forces and settlers across the West Bank.
The raids have so far uprooted at least 40,000 people, the largest displacement since the 1967 war that led to the Israeli occupation of the territory, according to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
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