14-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead in West Bank
The Palestinian teenager, Mahmoud Badran, was killed when his car was fired on by an Israeli military patrol
Israeli troops have shot dead a 14-year-old Palestinian boy and injured four other people, a Palestinian official said.
Wajih Ahmad, head of the Beit Ur al-Tahta local council in the West Bank, said the teenager, Mahmoud Badran, was killed when the car he was travelling in was fired on by an Israeli military patrol.
The hospital in the West Bank city of Ramallah said another person was moderately wounded and three others were slightly hurt.
The Israeli military gave no immediate response.
Israeli media said the shooting on Tuesday was aimed at rioters who were throwing rocks towards Israeli vehicles on a busy road. Three were injured in that attack.
Over the last nine months, Palestinians have carried out dozens of attacks, including stabbings, shootings and car ramming assaults, which have killed 32 Israelis and two Americans. About 200 Palestinians have been killed during that time. Israel has identified most of them as attackers while the rest died in clashes with Israeli troops.
The assaults were once near-daily incidents but they have become less frequent in recent weeks.
Also on Tuesday, the Israeli military demolished the home of a Palestinian who stabbed to death an American tourist and war veteran in an attack earlier this year.
The troops entered the West Bank village of Hajjah to knock down the residence of Bashar Masalha. In March, he killed Taylor Force and wounded 10 others in a stabbing attack on a Tel Aviv beachfront promenade.
Mr Force was a Vanderbilt University graduate student visiting Israel during a school trip. He previously graduated from West Point and served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Masalha was killed by police after the attack.
Israel said it carries out housing demolitions to deter future attacks. The Palestinians consider it a form of collective punishment.
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