Jenin: Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager in West Bank clashes, during what the army on Monday described as an operation to demolish the home of a suspected ̶0;terrorist”.
The Palestinian health ministry identified the youth as Mohammed Abu Salah, 17, who was killed after Israeli forces entered the village of Silat al-Harithiya near the flashpoint town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
Soldiers and border police had entered the village ̶0;to demolish the floor of the residence in which the terrorist Muhammad Jaradat resided”, the army said in a statement. Israel has blamed Jaradat and others for the fatal shooting of a Jewish settler in the illegal West Bank outpost of Homesh in December.
The army said ̶0;violent riots” broke out ahead of the planned demolition, ̶0;with the participation of hundreds of Palestinians,” some of whom hurled explosives at Israeli troops.
“The troops identified a number of armed rioters, and fired towards them in order to neutralise the threat,” the army said without commenting directly on the teen’s death.
Abu Salah’s body, draped in a white sheet, was hoisted by mourners ahead of his funeral later Monday. Silat al-Harithiya was shuttered early Monday, as commands to attend the burial rang out from the mosque’s loudspeakers.
