The ministry reported the death of Muhammad Wael al-Sharouf, “who was shot by (Israeli) forces north” of the city of Hebron. The Israeli military said earlier on Sunday that its forces had “eliminated a terrorist who attempted to stab them in the area of Hebron”.
It comes after the Palestinian civil affairs authority said on Saturday that Israeli forces killed a 16-year-old in an incident in the northern West Bank, after the military said an individual threw an explosive at soldiers.
“We informed the health ministry of the martyrdom of the boy Muhammad Iyad Abahra” by Israeli forces “in the town of Silat al-Harithiya in Jenin”, said the agency, which is affiliated with the Palestinian Authority.
The Israeli army had said earlier on Saturday that soldiers killed an individual who had “hurled an explosive toward the soldiers” in Silat al-Harithiya. “The soldiers responded with fire and eliminated the terrorist,” it said.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 and violence in the territory has surged since Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel triggered the war in Gaza. It has not ceased despite the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas that came into effect in October.
Israeli troops or settlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians, many of them militants, but also scores of civilians, in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, according to an AFP tally based on Palestinian health ministry figures.
At least 44 Israelis, including both soldiers and civilians, have been killed in Palestinian attacks or Israeli military operations, according to official Israeli figures.
