Israeli forces kill 14-year-old Palestinian in West Bank raid
The Palestinian health ministry names him as Moataz Daghlas, killed in Burqa near Nablus; Israel says soldiers fired at stone-throwers.
Israeli forces shot dead a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank on Monday evening, according to the Palestinian health ministry, which named him as Moataz Daghlas.
The ministry said Daghlas was killed in Burqa, a village northwest of Nablus. Dawn, citing the ministry, gave his name as Moutaz Eyad Daghlas and said he was killed late on Monday.
The Israeli military said soldiers had identified "several terrorists who intended to hurl stones" in an area where stones had previously been thrown at Israeli vehicles, and that they fired towards them "to remove the threat". Asked about the incident by AFP, the military alleged on Tuesday that it had acted to "thwart stone-hurling", Dawn reported.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said its teams treated two people with gunshot wounds and took them to hospital. It said Israeli forces blocked access to a third wounded person and detained three volunteer paramedics. The Palestinian news agency Wafa identified the two wounded as a 17-year-old, shot in the abdomen and pelvis, and a 19-year-old man, shot in the hand.
Daghlas's relatives said Israeli authorities were withholding his body, the BBC reported.
The United Nations says at least 98 Palestinians, including 22 children, have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the West Bank since the start of the year. Six Israelis, both security forces and civilians, have been killed by Palestinians in the West Bank over the same period.
In June the UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territory said it had verified the killing of 241 Palestinian children by Israeli security forces and settlers in the West Bank since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel of 7 October 2023. Most were teenage boys, and in many cases Israeli authorities accused them of stone-throwing, the office found. It said none of the children killed in confrontations with Israeli forces had posed an imminent threat to life, which it described as the only legal justification for lethal force in the West Bank under international law.
The rules of engagement for Israeli forces were reportedly broadened after the 7 October 2023 attacks, allowing soldiers greater discretion to use lethal force against a perceived threat.
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