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The Palestinian Authority said connected Friday (May 15, 2026) that Israeli forces changeable dormant a 15-year-old Palestinian lad successful the occupied West Bank, portion the subject said helium had been throwing stones astatine Israeli cars connected a road.
The authority's Health Ministry said it had been informed of the sidesplitting of Fahd Zidan Oweis. He was "shot dormant by the (Israeli) forces astatine dawn contiguous successful the municipality of Al-Lubban al-Sharqiyya successful the Nablus governorate. His assemblage has been withheld," it said.
The Israeli service told AFP that during a counterterror cognition successful the country it "eliminated a masked terrorist" who had "hurled rocks towards Israeli vehicles connected a cardinal road, endangering lives".
In a abstracted incidental successful the colony of Jibiya, northbound of Ramallah, Palestinians said Israeli settlers acceptable occurrence to a country wrong a mosque and torched 2 cars parked successful its courtyard.
Graffiti successful Hebrew was besides sprayed connected the mosque's outer walls.
The onslaught took spot soon aft midnight, according to Ibrahim Zibar, an worker astatine the mosque.
"Young men from the colony noticed fume coming from 1 of the mosque's windows and from 2 vehicles successful the courtyard," helium told AFP.
"It appears they tried to pain down the full mosque."
AFP video footage showed a shattered model and occurrence harm to a carpet and integrative chairs wrong the mosque, portion residents inspected the charred remains of the 2 vehicles.
"Our concern is nary antithetic from that of different villages," said nonmigratory Saber Shalash.
"This onslaught targeted our cars, our property, and the mosque, which we built done donations," helium said.
Rising settler violence
The Palestinian ministry of spiritual affairs condemned what it called "the settlers' gangs mounting occurrence to the mosque," describing the arson arsenic "a cowardly violent enactment that reflects an extremist mindset with nary respect for religion oregon planetary law."
The Israeli subject said troops searched for the suspects liable for the onslaught but were incapable to find them.
"Later today, the incidental volition beryllium investigated astatine the country by the Israel police," it said.
"The IDF powerfully condemns incidents of this kind, including harm to spiritual institutions, and volition proceed to enactment decisively to support information and nationalist bid successful the region."
Attacks by Israeli settlers connected Palestinians successful the occupied West Bank person persisted for years, often with small oregon nary ineligible consequence.
The caller surge successful violence, peculiarly since the outbreak of the Middle East war, has drawn wide planetary condemnation, including disapproval from influential rabbis, immoderate settler leaders, and members of the Israeli subject establishment.
More than 5,00,000 Israelis unrecorded successful settlements and outposts crossed the West Bank, alongside astir 3 cardinal Palestinians.
All settlements are considered amerciable nether planetary law.
Violence has accrued successful the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967, since the commencement of the warfare successful Gaza successful October 2023.
According to an AFP tally based connected Palestinian wellness ministry figures, Israeli troops oregon settlers person killed astatine slightest 1,072 Palestinians successful the West Bank since the warfare began.
Official Israeli figures amusement astatine slightest 46 Israelis person been killed successful Palestinian attacks oregon during Israeli subject operations successful the aforesaid period.
