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- Troops were apprehending a suspect in Balata refugee camp near Nablus and ‘responded with live fire’ to a threat
JEDDAH: An unarmed Palestinian teenager died on Tuesday after being shot in the head by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank.
Imad Hashash, 15, was killed during an Israeli raid on the Balata refugee camp in Nablus.
Israel claimed its soldiers were attacked by people throwing large stone blocks from rooftops.
Israeli warplanes also carried out a series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip overnight, targeting a Hamas weapons manufacturing site, a tunnel and an underground rocket launch site.
The army said it struck an additional tunnel after Hamas fired machineguns across the border.
Israel said it was responding to incidents on Monday, when Palestinian activists launched incendiary balloons into Israel, starting at least three fires.
The new violence came as ceasefire talks brokered by Egypt continued to deteriorate.
It also threatened to overshadow Naftali Bennett’s first meeting as Israeli prime minister with US President Joe Biden in Washington.
Tensions have been rising between Israel and Hamas, with the latter frustrated over the slow pace of ceasefire talks that it hopes will ease an Israeli blockade over the territory.
Israel has demanded the return of the remains of two dead soldiers, as well as two Israeli civilians believed to be alive and being held by Hamas, as a condition for the ceasefire.
In the meantime, it has held up the deliveries of much-needed reconstruction materials.