Soldiers responded with small-calibre live fire and rubber bullets and tear gas.
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The ministry identified the deceased as refugee camp resident Mohammed Abu Hashhash, 17.
An additional number of Palestinians were recruited by a Hezbollah activist in Gaza to carry out shootings and suicide attacks, according to the Shin Bet.
The IDF said its forces were on an operation “to uncover weaponry” in the camp and to damage the so-called terror infrastructure in the area.
The Israeli army forces seized pistols, hand grenades and commandos’ knives during the security mission, said an Israeli army spokesman quoted by the report.
The slain youth, Muhammad Abu Hashhash, is the 27th Palestinian child to be killed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip so far this year, according to data from Defense for Children International-Palestine.
The military says it fired toward the riot’s main instigators to try to prevent escalation.
The powerful Shiite Muslim group has targeted Israeli army patrols along the border in southern Lebanon in response to strikes against its members, most recently on January 4. Hindi told interrogators that he had been recruited through a Facebook page called “Palestine is Free”, which featured anti-Israel and pro-terror propaganda. At the same time, Palestinian attackers killed 33 Israelis and two visiting Americans.
Israeli troops arrested the Hamas representative on the organising committee for October Palestinian municipal elections on Wednesday, the Islamist movement said.
Earlier this month, another video showed Israeli forces seizing and destroying a Palestinian girl’s bicycle.
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Palestinians check their belongings after Israeli troops demolished their house in the West Bank village of Saer, near Hebron, on Tuesday.
