Ramallah says Palestinians whom IDF killed, claiming they were en route to ‘carry out terror attack,’ were both teenagers

Two Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank earlier today were both 15 years old, the Palestinian Authority says, after the Israeli military said it had killed two terrorists “on their way to carry out a terror attack.”

The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority health ministry announces without further details “the martyrdom of Bilal Bahaa Ali Baaran (15 years old) and Muhammad Mahmud Abu Ayash (15 years old), killed by bullets from the occupation this afternoon, Thursday, near Beit Omar, north of Hebron.”

The IDF said earlier today that troops killed two Palestinians who were “on their way to carry out a terror attack” near the West Bank settlement of Karmei Zur.

The military did not elaborate on what the two suspects were planning.

Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.

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