Karam Ali Ahmad Salman, 18, was shot dead near Kedumim settlement amid rising tensions.
Israeli guards have killed a Palestinian teenager near an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said amid rising tensions after Israeli forces killed at least nine people at a refugee camp in Jenin earlier this week.
Karam Ali Ahmad Salman, 18, was shot dead by “the Israeli garrison near the settlement of Kedumim,” the Palestinian Health Ministry reported on Sunday.
More than 30 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces so far this year.
The ministry added that Kedumim was built on privately owned Palestinian land.
The Israeli army claimed that Salman was “armed with a pistol” and shot dead by a “civilian security team”.
Mourners carry the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli raid during their funeral in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]
Israel has occupied the West Bank since the 1967 war and settlements are considered illegal under international law.
The shooting follows a spate of attacks after Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp in a raid on Thursday.
On the same day, a Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces in the town of al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, marking one of the deadliest days in the occupied West Bank.
The United Nations said 2022 was the deadliest year for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 2005, with at least 170 dead, including more than 30 children, and 9,000 others injured.
Meanwhile, the home of a Palestinian family north of Ramallah was set on fire by Israeli settlers on Saturday. Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Maher said no one was in the house when it was set on fire.
“We have learned that the family has left the occupied Palestinian territories,” he added from Ramallah. “Activists and eyewitnesses say there has been an uptick in attacks since Friday night.”
On Friday, a Palestinian attacker shot dead seven people near a synagogue in occupied east Jerusalem before being fatally shot.
In response to the attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday announced plans to give Israelis easier access to firearms, a move seen as “collective punishment” that could further fuel violence.
Israel also launched several airstrikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip on Friday. Local sources in Gaza told Al Jazeera that Israeli warplanes hit the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the center of the territory with at least 13 strikes in the early hours of Friday.
The Israeli army said the airstrikes on Gaza – one of the world’s most densely populated areas with a population of 2.1 million – followed after two rockets were fired at Israel around midnight (22:00 GMT).