Palestinian medical officials say some 35 people have been wounded in clashes with the Israeli military near the West Bank city of Hebron.
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In the clashes that followed, the IDF troops shot and killed a teen, identified by a local hospital as Mohammed Abu Hashhash.
Another resident was shot with a live round in the kidney, before he was moved to a hospital in a moderate condition.
Extensive clashes took place in the refugee camp when hundreds of soldiers invaded it, after completely surrounding it, and initiated violent searches of homes leading to property damage.
The wave of violence is centered around a spree of stabbings by Palestinians against Israeli soldiers at checkpoints, which have mostly resulted in the shooting and killings of suspected Palestinian attackers.
The Israeli army forces have been carrying out a regular security activity and searching for Palestinians wanted for being involved in planning attacks into Israel, reported Israeli Public Radio. It said troops found two improvised handguns and other weapons and ammunition during the raid.
Abu Hashhash is the first Palestinian fatality this month in a confrontation with Israeli forces. “The entrance can still be used by pedestrians, yet the extra distance that many have to travel to avoid closures incurs additional expenses impacting their already bleak financial situation”.
Citing information from Miluimnikim BaHazit (Reservists On Duty), a pro-Israel advocacy group of Israel Defense Forces veterans, Berko said the committee was told “about the marking out of Jewish dorms, of rooms of Jewish students, for example at New York University and other campuses”.
Collective punishment is forbidden under the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a party.
A Palestinian woman gestures as she holds a picture of her sons, two of whom are held in Israeli jails, after Israeli troops demolished her house in the West Bank village of Saeer, near Hebron August 16, 2016.
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Palestinian leaders say assailants have acted out of desperation over the collapse of peace talks in 2014 and Israeli settlement expansion in occupied territory that Palestinians seek for an independent state.
