Israel claims shot men were throwing stones

The Palestinian Health Ministry said yesterday that Israeli forces shot and killed a young man in the occupied West Bank. The ministry said Musab Nofal, 18, was hit with a bullet in the chest and died at hospital in the city of Ramallah. Another Palestinian was also seriously wounded. The Israeli military said Nofal and the second Palestinian were hurling stones at Israeli vehicles travelling on a West Bank road near Silwad, northeast of Ramallah.