Ramallah (Dispatches) – Zionist troops have shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid on the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its outskirts, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Taher Mohammad Zakarneh, 19, was killed on Monday in the village of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, after being shot in the head and legs.
Zakarneh was alive when he was taken to hospital in the morning, before succumbing to his injuries several hours later.
The occupying regime’s raid on Jenin began at dawn and led to confrontations with Palestinians.
A funeral procession was held for Zakarneh in Qabatiya shortly after the killing.
The official Palestinian Wafa news agency, citing the Palestinian Health Ministry, reported that he was shot in the head, the right foot and the left thigh, and suffered burns as well.
Another Palestinian was also injured with live bullets and three others detained during the regime’s army raid on Qabatya, according to reports.
Zionist troops also rounded up five Palestinians, including a young man identified as Odai Manasra from his workplace at a bakery, in the town.
Moreover, Zionist troops raided the city of Jenin and violently searched several homes, before abducting four young men who were named as Amin Sa’adi, Nawras Ghawadra, Mohammad Nasif Ghawadra and Nidal Saba’na.
According to witnesses, Palestinian resistance fighters exchanged fire with the regime’s troops as the latter invaded several parts of Jenin.
The troops continue their near-daily raid-and-arrest operations in various parts of the West Bank, wounding or killing Palestinians. Such raids are carried out while settlers also conduct acts of violence against Palestinians and their property.
Settler violence is rampant in the occupied Palestinian territories. The acts of violence and vandalism, known as price tag attacks which are committed by settlers against Palestinians and their property, have risen in recent years.