A Palestinian teenager who was shot on Saturday by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank died of his wounds on Sunday, the Palestinian health ministry said.
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Kamel Alawnah, aged 17, succumbed to his “gunshot wounds to the abdomen and handin the Palestinian city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The Israeli army said in a statement that “a suspect threw a firebomb at Israeli soldiersin the village of Jaba, near Jenin.
“The soldiers fired live ammunition at the suspect and hit himsaid the army, without giving further details. The Israeli army has multiplied in recent weeks the raids in Jenin, whose refugee camp is a stronghold of the Palestinian armed factions from which the perpetrators of recent attacks in Israel originated.
Since late March, Israeli security forces have been carrying out near-daily operations in the West Bank following a series of attacks by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs in Israel and the West Bank in which 19 people, mostly civilians, have lost their lives.
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During these Israeli army operations, at least 49 Palestinians and three Arab Israeli attackers were killed, partly members of armed groups, but also civilians, including Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, covering an operation in Jenin.