Palestinians say teen shot dead by IDF in West Bank; army says it fired at gunmen
Military says incident under review, occurred during exchanges of fire near Jenin

Israeli forces shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian boy during a raid in the West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Saturday, an incident which the Israeli military said was under review.
There were confrontations with Israeli forces at the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, during a pre-dawn military raid there, the Wafa report said. The Israeli military said a number of Palestinian gunmen had shot at its troops, who returned fire.
A report was later received regarding a Palestinian minor who was killed, the military said.
“The circumstances of the incident are under review,” it said in a statement to Reuters.
The teen’s death was confirmed by Fawaz Hammad, director of Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin, Wafa said.
On Thursday three Israelis were wounded in a terror shooting against school buses and other cars on a major highway in the West Bank. The attack took place in the town of al-Auja. Route 90, the main north-south artery in the Jordan Valley, passes through the Palestinian town.
Two bulletproof school buses and at least two cars were hit in the attack as they drove through al-Auja, according to medics and local authorities.
In one of the cars, a 30-year-old man was shot and left in moderate condition and another man was shot and lightly hurt, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. In the second car, a 13-year-old boy hit by glass shards was lightly hurt.
Security forces in Jerusalem and the West Bank have been on high alert since the start of Ramadan earlier this month. Tensions were already high between Israelis and Palestinians due to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, triggered by the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists murdered about 1,200 people and kidnapped 253.
Since October 7, the IDF has said, troops arrested some 3,600 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,600 affiliated with Hamas.
Palestinians say over 450 people have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since hostilities broke out, most while carrying out attacks or during clashes with IDF troops in nightly raids that have largely concentrated on a handful of areas in the northern West Bank. However, killings of innocent bystanders have also been alleged.