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Palestinian teen shot dead in Israeli West Bank raid, Wafa reports

By Thomson Reuters Apr 29, 2026 | 2:07 PM

RAMALLAH, West Bank, April 29 (Reuters) – A Palestinian teen was shot dead during an Israeli military ​raid in the occupied West ‌Bank on Wednesday, official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

The Palestinian health ministry said the teenager was a 16-year-old boy. ‌The ​Israeli military said it ⁠was looking into ⁠the report. Wafa said the boy was killed by soldiers’ gunfire, during a raid in the Palestinian ​city of Hebron.

Earlier, the Israeli military said two Palestinians attacked ⁠and wounded two soldiers ⁠in the area of ​Silwad, near Ramallah. The soldiers opened fire, ​killing one of the assailants and ‌apprehended the second man alive, the military said.

Reuters was not immediately able to verify the details ⁠of either incident.

In northern Gaza, Palestinian health officials said a medic was killed in ⁠an ‌Israeli strike. The Israeli military ⁠did not immediately comment. ​It ‌said its forces had shot ​dead a ⁠militant in southern Gaza in a separate incident later on Wednesday.

(Reporting by Ali Sawafta in ramallah and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Cairo; Editing by ​David Gregorio)