AhlulBayt News Agency - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and killed a Palestinian boy in Halhoul, in northern al-Khalil, Friday afternoon and arrested another after injuring him.
The Palestinian ministry of health said in a statement that 17-year-old Haitham Ismail al-Bu was killed by IOF gunfire in Wadi al-Shannar area in Halhoul.
Local sources said that IOF soldiers in a military patrol fired at the boy in the northern area of the town, adding that another minor was rounded up after being shot and wounded in the same area.
For its part, the Hebrew website 0404 claimed that two Palestinians were trying to toss a firebomb on a bus carrying settlers on road 60 when the soldiers spotted them. It added that the soldiers fired at both killing one on the spot then arrested the other after wounding him.
The Palestinian Red Crescent society said that the soldiers did not allow its ambulance crews to reach al-Bu who was hit with a bullet in the head and fell from a high rock. He was left to bleed to death while the other wounded youngster was arrested, it added.
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