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<\/picture><\/div>\nIsraeli forces shot dead a 14-year-old in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said, with Israel saying it was responding to stone-throwing.<\/p>\n
Moutaz Eyad Daghlas was killed in Burqa, northwest of Nablus, late on Monday (November 9, 2026), the Palestinian health ministry said.<\/p>\n
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said its teams treated two people with gunshot wounds and took them to hospital, but that Israeli forces blocked access to a third wounded person and detained three volunteer paramedics.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Israeli military, asked by AFP <\/i>about the incident, said on Tuesday (November 10, 2026) it had acted to “thwart stone-hurling and terrorist attacks” in the area.<\/p>\n
“The soldiers identified several terrorists who intended to hurl stones at a highway used by Israeli vehicles. This was in an area where stones have recently been hurled at Israeli vehicles,” the military said.<\/p>\n
“The soldiers responded by firing towards them in order to remove the threat.”<\/p>\n
Israeli forces have routinely opened live fire on Palestinians including minors who throw stones in the West Bank, which Israel has controlled since 1967.<\/p>\n
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said Israeli forces killed at least 241 children or teenagers in the territory between the October 7, 2023 attack by Gaza-based Hamas and late June this year.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nViolence has increased in recent weeks, especially in the run-up to Israel’s October 27 election, before which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had sought to appeal to hardline settlers in the West Bank.<\/p>\n
On October 23, Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Hebron before being killed by Israeli forces, who later responded with a major operation in the flashpoint city.<\/p>\n
Israeli soldiers or settlers have killed at least 1,116 Palestinians, both civilians and militants, in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, according to an AFP <\/i>tally based on Palestinian Authority figures.<\/p>\n Palestinian attacks or clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces have killed at least 51 Israelis during the same period, according to official Israeli figures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/knjxlu\/article71670949.ece\/alternates\/SQUARE_80\/AFP_D3VN4BZ.jpg\")
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