Israeli forces kill Palestinian teen near Bethlehem, captures body

The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the killing of Yusuf Bakr Zalou, a 17-year-old Palestinian teenager, who was shot by Israeli forces overnight, Wafa news agency reports.

The killing took place in a village west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the report said, adding that Israeli soldiers took away his body.

An official from the Palestinian Red Crescent told Wafa that Israeli forces prevented his team from approaching the scene to provide assistance and ordered them to leave.

The Israeli military said it shot and killed the teenager for throwing rocks toward Road 375 adjacent to Husan. Soldiers who were operating in the area responded with fire, the statement said.

In another attack earlier today, Israeli settlers assaulted a Palestinian in the village of Qira in the central occupied West Bank, assaulting a local and setting his vehicle on fire, local sources told Wafa.