Israeli forces demolish 42 Palestinian barns

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank who reportedly was throwing rocks at cars and Israeli soldiers.

Doctors at al-Mizan hospital in Hebron said the boy, identified as Omar Madi, was shot in the chest during clashes in the camp and was evacuated to the hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.

The Israeli authorities, meanwhile, allege that more than 170 knife attacks, 44 shooting attacks and 33 vehicular attacks have been carried out by Palestinians against Israelis over the same period, leaving 30 Israelis dead and more than 340 injured.

Last Thursday, Israeli forces demolished five tents, three barns and an outside toilet in the village of Tammun, in the West Bank, which it said had been built without permits.

A wave of violence which erupted on October 1 has claimed the lives of 26 Israelis, as well as an American, a Sudanese and an Eritrean, according to an AFP count.

Israel blames incitement by Palestinian leaders and media as a main cause of the unrest while some analysts say Palestinian frustration and the lack of progress in peace efforts and their own fractured leadership have fed the unrest. Please see our terms of service for more information.

She would also speak later Friday with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, “to make clear that the global community will not give up on the two-state solution”. “The problem lies in those cases where Israelis and Palestinians who are killed in the same incident are placed in one package”.

Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed East Jerusalem, declaring it part of its eternal, indivisible capital, a move never recognized internationally.