Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank on Friday and arrested 25 people, pursuing a weeklong crackdown against Islamist militants and house-to-house searches for three Israeli teenagers who went missing eight days ago.
Palestinian medics said Mohammed Dudin, 15, was killed in the village of Dura, near the city of Hebron in the West Bank. The Israeli military said troops had fired live ammunition when rocks and firebombs were thrown at them during an arrest raid.
Israel said it arrested 25 people overnight in some 200 towns, refugee camps and cities in the West Bank, totalling 330 arrests including 240 from Hamas, the Islamist group Israel accuses of kidnapping three Israeli teenagers who went missing near a Jewish settlement on June 13.
Dudin was the second Palestinian killed since these raids began.
Palestinians threw a hand grenade wounding a soldier lightly elsewhere in the West Bank, the military said.
Some 1,150 sites in the territory have thus far been searched, the military said, in its mission to deal a blow to Hamas while in pursuit of Gil-Ad Shaer and US-Israeli national Naftali Fraenkel, aged 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19.
Israel has also struck out at welfare organisations it accuses of aiding Hamas, a group that opposes Israel’s existence. Soldiers raided 30 such institution on Thursday.
