Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager on Saturday in a clash in a village near Bethlehem, staff at a local hospital reported.
The military said troops fired one live round and used unspecified crowd dispersal equipment when they were attacked by a violent crowd but could not say for certain what caused the fatal wound.
Medics at Beit Jalla hospital said 16-year-old Hassan Hmeid was shot in the chest. Witnesses said soldiers opened fire when a patrol entered the village of Tekoa on Saturday and came under a hail of stones thrown by local youngsters.
In the northern West Bank, Israeli settlers rampaged through the Palestinian village of Assira Kubliyeh and wounded six residents after a Palestinian stabbed a nine-year-old Israeli boy outside a nearby Jewish settlement.
The Israeli military said that an intruder set fire to a house in the Israeli settlement of Yitzar early on Saturday morning. The occupants were away for the weekend but a boy elsewhere in the settlement spotted him and raised the alarm. The attacker stabbed the child five times then escaped on foot, the army said.
The boy was treated at an Israeli hospital, where his injuries were described as light.
Following the stabbing, dozens of settlers raided Assira Kubliyeh, shooting in the air, smashing windows and overturning a car, Mayor Hosni Sharaf said.
Sharaf said Israeli soldiers arrived and declared a curfew, but that the settler rampage continued for almost three hours.
Resident Ahmed Daoud said settlers broke windows in his house and shot at water tanks on his rooftop. He said he, his children and a neighbor threw stones from the roof to try to drive the assailants away.
Daoud said his 10-year-old son was lightly hurt by shrapnel and that the neighbor was hit in the face by a rubber-coated steel bullet.
Sharaf said that in all, two villagers were hit by live fire and four by rubber bullets.
The army said that troops did not fire either live ammunition or rubber bullets and any casualties to Palestinians were caused by the settlers.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenberg said two weapons were confiscated from settlers but nobody was arrested. He said Palestinian authorities notified their Israeli counterparts of light injuries to three Palestinians.
One of those hit by live fire, 17-year-old Wafa Subboh, was struck in the shoulder and was treated at Raffidiyeh Hospital in the nearby city of Nablus, hospital officials said.
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