Israeli troops kill stone-thrower in West Bank

RAMALLAH: Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man during clashes with stone-throwers in the occupied West Bank on Monday, both sides said, as tensions mounted over Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.
Israel also detained dozens of Palestinians overnight in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, said activists, part of a crackdown on suspected militants stepped up last month after the abduction and killing of three Jewish seminary students.
A Palestinian witness said Munir Al-Badarin, 21, and other young men were throwing rocks at soldiers outside the West Bank village of Samoa when they were fired on by another army unit.
“They (the Israeli troops) were hiding and ducking to the ground and when we showed up they rose from their place and began firing at us,” the witness, who declined to give his name, told Reuters.
“We escaped and soon we discovered that Munir was missing.”
Ambulance driver Abdel-Mua’ez Al-Jarsawi told Reuters he was summoned to Samoa, where soldiers initially held him back as they tried to resuscitate Badarin, who was shot twice in the lower back. Jarsawi said he took Badarin to a nearby Palestinian hospital where the young man died.
Israel said Badarin was among three masked men spotted throwing rocks and bottles of paint at Israeli cars.