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Palestinian teenager killed by Israeli forces near occupied East Jerusalem

Israeli forces shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian boy in the town of Anata, east of Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Wafa reported that the boy, identified as Shadi Wessam Sheiha, was working at a car wash when he was shot by an Israeli sniper from the nearby illegal settlement of Pisgat Zeev in occupied East Jerusalem.

His death brings the total number of fatalities in the occupied West Bank since  7 October to 625.