WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist troops have shot dead a Palestinian teenage boy, who hurled rocks at patrolling regime forces in the occupied West Bank.
The incident took place in Beit Ummar, northeast of the city of al-Khalil.
The victim, who was identified as 15-year-old Khalid Bahr Ahmad Bahr, was reportedly shot in the back, with the bullet coming out through his chest.
Local activist, Muhammad Ayyad Awad, told the Palestinian Ma’an news agency that the Zionist troops prevented a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance from approaching the teen.
Witnesses also said that Zionist troops refused to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation to the youth, with reports saying the regime troops transferred the victim’s body to an unknown location.
However, Awad noted that Zionist authorities had informed Beit Ummar mayor that Bahr’s body would be returned on Friday.
"Rocks were hurled at the soldiers, wounding one of them lightly,” a Zionist police spokeswoman said, claiming that the troops first fired warning shots and then fired toward the Palestinian youth.
Meanwhile, Israeli media reported that another Palestinian youth was detained during Thursday’s incident.
The occupying regime’s police and troops have come under heavy criticism for extrajudicial executions of Palestinian citizens, who did not pose a threat or could have been detained through non-lethal means.