Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces during a clash on Saturday in a West Bank town neighbouring occupied East Jerusalem, sources on both sides said.

Israel's border police said that during an operation in Al Eizariya "a riot erupted" and its forces responded with fire toward a suspect attempting to throw a Molotov cocktail at them.

The Palestinian health ministry identified the dead man as Fayez Damdum, 18, and said he was killed by a gunshot to his neck.

The border police said that during the confrontations "stones and explosive devices were thrown at the forces, who responded with riot dispersal means".

Israel has launched hundreds of operations in the occupied West Bank since March in pursuit of alleged militants who had carried out or planned attacks on Israelis.

The raids, many in the northern West Bank, have sparked confrontations that have killed dozens of Palestinians, including fighters.

On Thursday, a seven-year-old Palestinian boy died, possibly after falling off a building, as soldiers were carrying out arrests of stone-throwing youths in Tuqu, a village near Bethlehem.