Palestinian teen killed in Israeli raid

JERUSALEM — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager Tuesday during an army raid in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank, Palestinian officials said.

During an operation in the Faraa refugee camp near the northeastern city of Tubas, the Israeli military said it opened fire on a Palestinian who approached troops with an explosive device. The camp is home to a recently formed militant cell affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Islamist group.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said Mahmoud al-Aydi. 17, died from a bullet wound to the head. No militant group immediately claimed him as a member.

Also Tuesday, a 25-year-old Palestinian succumbed to wounds he suffered two years ago when the Israeli army shot him in Masafer Yatta, in the southern West Bank, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.

Palestinian health officials identified him as Haroun Abu Aram.

In Hebron, Palestinian activist Issa Amro was giving an interview to Lawrence Wright of The New Yorker magazine Monday when an Israeli soldier grabbed Amro by the neck before throwing him onto a brick sidewalk, footage posted by Wright on Twitter showed.

The soldier kicked Amro as he lay on the ground and began to drag him on the concrete before another soldier intervened, pulling him away. Late Monday, the Israeli army said the soldier would serve 10 days in military prison and be suspended from active combat duty.

“Soldiers deserve to be backed up, not jailed,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir tweeted.

(AP/Nasser Nasser) Mourners wait at the family home of Mahmoud Al-Aydi, 17, to view his body, during his funeral Tuesday in the West Bank refugee camp of Faraa, near Jenin, Israel.