PA says 3 Palestinians, including teen, were killed by Israeli troops in past day

Three Palestinians, including a 15-year-old, were shot and killed by Israeli forces in the southern and central West Bank over the past day, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry says.

Mustafa Hamad, 22, died early Friday of wounds sustained overnight when Israeli forces opened fire in the entrance to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab, also wounding three other Palestinians, one of whom was arrested, according to WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency.

Sufian Abu Leil, 46, was reportedly shot in the head by troops who clashed with Palestinians leaving Hamad’s funeral in the adjacent Qalandiya refugee camp on Friday afternoon, WAFA says, adding that another young man was also wounded.

Both Hamad and Abu Leil succumbed to their wounds at the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, according to Palestinian reports.

The IDF confirms that “in two different incidents over the past day,” troops operating near the central West Bank’s Qalandiya refugee camp opened fire on “key instigators” of “disturbances that included hurling of stones at the forces.”

“Hits were identified. There are no casualties to our forces,” the IDF says.

The military does not immediately comment on the death of 15-year-old Adham Dahman south of Bethlehem.

Dahman succumbed to his wounds at the Beit Jala Governmental Hospital, where he was rushed late Friday night after being shot by Israeli forces operating in the Dheisheh refugee camp, the PA Health Ministry says.

According to WAFA, Dahman was shot in the abdomen, and another Palestinian was also hospitalized after being wounded by troops in Dheisheh.