An Israeli soldier shot and killed a Palestinian teenager with live ammunition on Tuesday after security forces stormed a refugee camp in the Occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian health ministry confirmed that 16-year-old Imad Khaled Salah Hashash died after being shot in the head by Israeli forces in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus.
The ministry said Hashash was rushed to the Rafidia Surgical hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Wafa News agency.
Images posted online showed Hashash’s family cradling his dead body after being wrapped in blue funeral shrouds.
The Israeli army alleged that Hashash was shot when soldiers saw a resident throwing a “large object” during a raid of the refugee camp. Continue
