WEST BANK (Dispatches) – A Palestinian teenager was killed by Zionist troops during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday.
Salah al-Buraiki, 19, died after being shot in the neck, the ministry said in a statement, adding that three other Palestinians were also wounded.
Palestinian sources said that Zionist troops raided several buildings and deployed snipers on their rooftops, leading to confrontations with residents.
The Zionist regime’s military vehicles stormed the camp in the early hours of Friday, and clashes erupted between the regime troops and Palestinian resistance fighters.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health later announced in a statement that Briki succumbed to wounds he sustained in the neck.
Zionist troops also broke into a number of houses in the camp, and arrested a young man named Baraa Kifah Alawneh.
The development came as a Palestinian teenager died of wounds he sustained one month ago when he was shot by the regime’s army in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that Mohammad Fadi Nouri, 16, lost his life on Thursday.
Meanwhile, according to local media, there have been more than 100 attacks by Zionist settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank over the last ten days.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said on Friday that most of the attacks it had documented had taken place in the northern West Bank, especially in the town of Huwwara in Nablus governorate.
Last week, dozens of settlers attacked Palestinian property and vehicles in the Huwwara area.
Witnesses told Middle East Eye that masked settlers threw rocks at Palestinian vehicles near the town, as well as setting vehicles and olive trees on fire.
Abdullah Odeh, who owns a local amusement park in Huwwara, said residents had almost been successful in repelling the settlers when a group of Zionist troops arrived.
“The settlers were retreating, but when they saw the soldiers, they came back in force and started to get closer, breaking everything in their path,” said Odeh.
“The soldiers did not push them back. Instead, they started to attack us and shoot toward us.”
Footage from Odeh’s security cameras reviewed by MEE corroborates his story.
“While the soldiers were pushing us back and attacking us, the settlers started to set fire to one of our vans that was parked higher up on the hill, while another group of them came and started to set fire to one of our lorries,” he says.
Armed with stones, sticks, and guns, another group of settlers began throwing rocks at passing cars and smashing up shops along the town’s main road.