Key facts
- The Israeli military said soldiers identified people it called terrorists intending to hurl stones and fired to remove the threat.
- The Palestinian Red Crescent said Israeli forces detained three volunteer paramedics during the raid.
- Palestinian news agency Wafa said the wounded were a 17-year-old shot in the abdomen and pelvis and a 19-year-old shot in the hand.
- The UN says at least 98 Palestinians, including 22 children, have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the West Bank since the start of the year.
- The UN says six Israelis, security forces and civilians, have been killed by Palestinians in the West Bank over the same period.
Israeli forces shot dead a 14-year-old Palestinian boy, Moataz Daghlas, in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on the evening of November 9, the Palestinian health ministry said. The raid in the Old City of Nablus area took place on Sunday, November 8.
The Israeli military said soldiers identified "several terrorists who intended to hurl stones" in an area where stones had previously been thrown at Israeli vehicles, and that the soldiers fired towards them "to remove the threat".
The Palestinian Red Crescent said its teams treated two people with gunshot wounds, and that Israeli forces blocked their access to a third wounded person and detained three volunteer paramedics. Relatives of Moataz Daghlas said Israeli authorities were withholding his body.
Palestinian news agency Wafa identified the two wounded as a 17-year-old shot in the abdomen and pelvis and a 19-year-old shot in the hand.
According to the UN, at least 98 Palestinians, including 22 children, have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the West Bank since the start of the year. Six Israelis, both security forces and civilians, have been killed by Palestinians in the West Bank over the same period, it says.
The rules of engagement for Israeli forces were reportedly broadened after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, allowing soldiers increased discretion to use lethal force against a perceived threat. In June, the UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territory said it had verified the killing of 241 Palestinian children by Israeli security forces and settlers in the West Bank since then, finding that most were teenage boys and that in many cases Israeli authorities accused them of stone-throwing.