Mahmoud Badran, from the village of Beit Ur al-Tahta, was shot by the IDF after a violent incident of stone throwing along Route 443 in the West Bank late Monday night.
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The Ministry of Health said 15-year-old Mahmoud Rafat Badran was shot dead and four others injured by Israeli soldiers who opened live fire at them, allegedly while they were pelting stones at Israeli vehicles near the village of Beit Luqia.
Mahmoud was left to bleed to death on the ground and was covered with a white cover, two others were injured and two others arrested at the scene.
It began with two foreigners and one Israeli being lightly injured when their vehicle was hit by stones on Route 443, a busy road that connects Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israeli media reported.
The Ramallah hospital says another person was moderately wounded and three were lightly wounded.
“We condemn in the strongest terms this brutal attack”, said Palestinian official Saeb Erekat. “From the initial inquiry, it appears that uninvolved bystanders were mistakenly hit during this pursuit”, said the army.
Six other Palestinians in the auto were injured, including two who remain in serious condition from gunshot wounds, Qassem said.
Palestinians said the person killed was a 15-year old boy who had been inside a auto when it came under fire.
Most of the Palestinians were killed as they carried out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks. Israel has identified majority as attackers while the rest died in clashes with Israeli troops.
Palestinian Bashar Massala, 21, from the occupied West Bank was shot dead by police after the attack in March near where US Vice President Joe Biden met with Israel’s former president.
Some 220 Palestinians and 33 Israelis and tourists have been killed since last October although the violence has significantly declined in recent months.
Mr Force was a Vanderbilt University graduate student visiting Israel during a school trip.
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Israel says incitement in the Palestinian media and personal problems at home have been important factors that have spurred assailants, often teenagers, to launch attacks.
