Overview
- Palestinian authorities identified the dead boy as 14-year-old Moataz Iyad Daghlas and said he was killed during an Israeli operation in the village of Burqa on Monday.
- The Israel Defense Forces said soldiers opened fire to prevent Palestinians from throwing stones at vehicles and that several people were hit during the response.
- Medical groups and local sources said Israel prevented ambulances from reaching the wounded, briefly detained three volunteer medics, and that authorities are holding the boy’s body.
- Two other teenagers were reported wounded, with a 17-year-old shot in the abdomen and pelvis and a 19-year-old struck in the hand and treated at hospital.
- The incident follows months of rising West Bank violence recorded by the UN and monitors and sits alongside reports that some soldiers have taken part in settler attacks while in civilian clothes and expanded regional defence units.