Israel kills Palestinian in West Bank-medics

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot dead a
Palestinian youth on Tuesday in a confrontation in the West
Bank town of Nablus, medics said.

The Israeli army said its troops had opened fire on
Palestinians suspected of planning to plant an explosive to
ambush troops on a mountain road on the outskirts of the
Palestinian city.

It was the first lethal incident in the occupied territory
in nearly a week, after a lull in a wave of violence in which
Israel killed 17 Palestinians, most of them militants, in raids
after a suicide bomb attack on October 26 that killed six
Israelis.

Medics and witnesses said soldiers opened fire on
Palestinians who threw an explosive device, critically wounding
two youths. A 15-year-old later died of bullet wounds in the
head and neck, medics said.