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11-06-2021, 18:14
A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank on Friday, local media reported.
Mohammad Said Hamayel, 15, diedxafter Israeli forces shot him near Beita, south of Nablus, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.x
The Palestinian health ministry said six others had been wounded by live gunfire.
According toxWafa, the Palestinian news agency, Israeli forces opened live firexduring "a public protest against Israel's construction of a colonial settlement outpost near the village".
The teenager's death comes a day after three Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on an allegedxmission to arrest "suspected terrorists" in the occupied West Bank.
Violence in the West Bank increased in early May, with at least 30 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire.
That came amid a flare-up in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem that led to 11 days of an Israeli campaign of relentless bombardment on thexGaza Strip.
West Bank villages often hold Friday demonstrations against land confiscation, house demolitions and Israeli settlements deemed illegal under international law. The events are often responded to by Israeli army firing teargas and live gunfire.
Some 475,000 Jewish settlers live in the occupied West Bank in settlements deemed illegal under Israeli and international law.
The West Bank isxhome to more than 2.8 million Palestinians.
Israel forces have been slammed by rights group and activists forxdisplaying an "appalling disregard for human life" by using reckless and unlawful lethal force against Palestinians.Amnesty International has repeatedly urged an end tox thex"worrying rise in unlawful killings by Israeli forces, fostered by a culture of impunity".
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