Palestinian teen killed in West Bank clash with Israel
The Hindu
The ministry said he was 15.
A Palestinian teenager was killed Wednesday in clashes with Israeli troops that erupted during a visit by right-wing politicians to a sensitive religious site in the occupied West Bank, multiple sources said.
The Palestinian health ministry said: "Mahdi Mohammad Hashash died of serious wounds caused by shrapnel that hit different parts of his body during the occupation's incursion into Nablus," the largest city in the northern West Bank.
The ministry said he was 15. It was not immediately clear if he was killed by an explosive he was carrying, or by Israeli fire.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's secular Fatah movement, issued a statement claiming the minor as one of its members.
The Israeli military said troops were in the area to secure "the entrance of worshippers to Joseph's Tomb", believed to be the last resting place of the biblical patriarch Joseph and a flashpoint for West Bank violence.
A Jewish settler organisation told AFP that eight Israeli politicians — current lawmakers and others elected on November 1 who have yet to be sworn in — were visiting Joseph's Tomb.
The group included members of veteran hawk Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party and allies from the extreme right Religious Zionism bloc.
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