Israeli troops shoot, kill 14-year Palestinian boy

The daily Ha’aretz quoted Israeli authorities as saying that they had cut the supplies because the Palestinian Authority was refusing to approve additional water infrastructure in the West Bank.

Herzog, the Israeli Knesset’s opposition leader, reportedly offered those concessions in talks conducted with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas before the March 2015 Israeli election.

The fatal shooting took place close to the Ofer Israeli prison and military base, built on Palestinian lands belonging to Betunia residents, west of Ramallah.

Later, the army revised its account, saying that “from initial inquiry, it appears uninvolved bystanders were mistakenly hit during the pursuit”, a spokeswoman said. Their four children, including a four-month-old infant, were in the vehicle but survived unharmed. Israeli media also reported that two foreigners might also have suffered slight injuries.

Palestinian officials initially said the deceased was 14 years old, but later corrected themselves.

Two people were also arrested.

“Forces confirmed hits resulting in the death of one of the attackers”.

The Palestine Liberation Organization condemned the death of the teen, calling the incident a “brutal attack”.

“This cold-blooded assassination reaffirms our calls to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, to initiate an immediate extensive investigation into Israeli extrajudicial killings of Palestinians; particularly children”, the statement read.

Since October, violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories has killed at least 209 Palestinians, 32 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese.

The October 1 attack on the settler couple marked the beginning of a wave of Palestinian attacks.

Others were killed in clashes with security forces or by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.

The slain American, Taylor Force, a 29-year-old native of Texas and a USA army veteran, was a graduate student at Vanderbilt University, the school said in a statement. The Palestinians consider it a form of collective punishment.