ISRAELI forces killed several Palestinians in the West Bank overnight, including a teenager.
Three Palestinians were killed in two separate clashes with Israeli forces. This included 13-year-old Rami Hamdan al-Halhuli, who had reportedly thrown fireworks at the paramilitary Border Police.
The Palestinian Authority said he was shot dead late on Tuesday in the Shuafat refugee camp, a poor area on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
Israeli police say a member of the paramilitary Border Police fired “a single shot” toward a suspect who aimed fireworks in their direction during confrontations in Shuafat. It says the suspect was “apprehended, arrested and transferred for medical treatment”.
Israeli police, meanwhile, said a Palestinian stabbed and wounded two members of the security forces at a checkpoint near Jerusalem before being shot.
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The Border Police also said they opened fire at five Palestinians who were hurling firebombs at vehicles on a highway near Jerusalem late Tuesday. It says they were arrested and transferred for medical treatment.
Appearing to describe the same incident, the Palestinian health ministry says Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, ages 16 and 23, and wounded three in the village of al-Jib, near Jerusalem. It says they were brought to a hospital in the nearby city of Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority is headquartered.
At least 427 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since Hamas’ October 7 attack, mostly during confrontations with Israeli forces, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Israeli-Palestinian tensions often soar during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began on Sunday, over access to a major holy site in Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said six aid trucks entered Gaza through the north late on Tuesday as international pressure mounts for more humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Some 1200 people, mostly civilians, were killed during the Hamas-led incursion into southern Israel on October 7, and around 250 people were abducted. Hamas is believed to still be holding around 100 hostages.
Gaza’s health ministry says that more than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed and most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people forced from their homes.
The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count, but says that women and children make up two thirds of the dead. A quarter of Gaza’s population is starving, according to the United Nations.
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