WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist troops have killed a 16-year-old Palestinian boy in the al-Mughair village, northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
Identified as Amjad Abu Alya by the Palestinian Health Ministry, the boy succumbed to his critical injuries on Friday as a result of live ammunition fired by the occupying regime’s troops in the chest during a military raid of the region.
According to WAFA News Agency, the clashes erupted after the Zionist troops and settlers violently cracked down on a rally against settler attacks in the village.
Local sources said Abu Alia was the only child of his parents.
The occupying regime has ramped up its deadly raids on different areas of the West Bank in recent months, killing dozens of Palestinians who come to defend their land

Settler Land Seizure in
Outpost Case ‘Legalized’

Meanwhile, the Zionist regime’s so-called supreme court has ruled against evacuating an unauthorized settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank, in a precedent-setting decision that rights groups fear will pave the way for new mass confiscations of Palestinian land.
The ruling reversed a decision made by the court two years ago ordering Zionist settlers to leave the Mitzpe Kramim outpost near Ramallah.
Outposts, built by settlers in the occupied West Bank without regime authorization, are often turned into official settlements, but are at times challenged legally and forced to be dismantled.
Both outposts and regime-approved and subsidized settlements are illegal under international law.
Mitzpe Kramim was first erected in 2000 on privately owned and registered Palestinian land in the village of Deir Jarir, northeast of Ramallah.
In 2018, the district court ruled in favor of settlers who filed a suit requesting the outpost be retroactively approved by the state.
The court recognized the settlers’ claim to the land, despite it being owned by Palestinians, using a little-known section of military law known as “market regulations”.
The decision was appealed by Deir Jarir families and in 2020 the court overturned the district court’s ruling.
However, the regime’s war ministry requested a further hearing before an extended panel, fearing the decision would block other requests made under the “market regulation” principle, and the court reversed its decision.
Meanwhile, Zionist regime authorities razed down six houses in Ariha in the occupied West Bank, a continuation of what rights advocates denounce as the regime’s policy of dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
The regime’s forces raided the region on Wednesday and flattened six residential structures with bulldozers, Palestinian media reported.
Similarly on Tuesday, the regime’s military bulldozers had demolished two houses belonging to Palestinian inmates, Yusef Aasi and Yehya Miri, whom the regime has accused of killing a settler in the West Bank village of Qarawat Bani Hasan back in April.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Zionist regime authorities confiscated large swathes of land and demolished more than 50 Palestinian-owned structures across the occupied West Bank between June 28 and July 18.