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Palestinian-American Teenager Killed by Israeli Forces in West Bank, Palestinian Officials Say

Mourners follow the funeral of killed Palestinians from their partly destroyed house in the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarm, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP)
Mourners follow the funeral of killed Palestinians from their partly destroyed house in the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarm, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP)
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Palestinian-American Teenager Killed by Israeli Forces in West Bank, Palestinian Officials Say

Mourners follow the funeral of killed Palestinians from their partly destroyed house in the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarm, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP)
Mourners follow the funeral of killed Palestinians from their partly destroyed house in the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarm, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP)

A Palestinian-American teenager was killed by Israeli security forces on Friday in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The American-born youth was 17-years-old, the boy's uncle told Reuters, adding that the incident occurred during clashes with the Israeli military that included stone-throwing by Palestinians.

The Palestinian official news agency WAFA said the youth had been killed by Israeli gunfire.

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Israel Says It Arrested 2,500 Palestinians in Gaza in 2024

Displaced Palestinians rush to take shelter during a storm at a makeshift camp in Gaza City on December 31, 2024, amid the continuing war between Israel and the Hamas group. (AFP)
Displaced Palestinians rush to take shelter during a storm at a makeshift camp in Gaza City on December 31, 2024, amid the continuing war between Israel and the Hamas group. (AFP)
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Israel Says It Arrested 2,500 Palestinians in Gaza in 2024

Displaced Palestinians rush to take shelter during a storm at a makeshift camp in Gaza City on December 31, 2024, amid the continuing war between Israel and the Hamas group. (AFP)
Displaced Palestinians rush to take shelter during a storm at a makeshift camp in Gaza City on December 31, 2024, amid the continuing war between Israel and the Hamas group. (AFP)

Israel’s Shin Bet security service said it had arrested around 2,500 Palestinians in Gaza during 2024, of which 650 were interrogated.

The agency said, without providing evidence, that the interrogations enabled Israel to retrieve nine bodies of hostages who were kidnapped and taken to Gaza during Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

Additionally, 27 Israelis were indicted for spying for Iran, a nearly four-fold increase from 2023, it said. The Shin Bet released the figures in their year-end review of operations during the calendar year.

In the occupied West Bank, 3,682 Palestinians were arrested on suspicion of involvement in “terror activities,” the Shin Bet said.

Last year, Israel arrested more than 4,000 Palestinians in the West Bank between October to December, according to the UN.

The UN Human Rights Office issued a report this summer saying Palestinians detained by Israeli authorities since the Oct. 7 attacks faced waterboarding, sleep deprivation, electric shocks, dogs set on them and other forms of torture and mistreatment. Israel’s prison authorities previously said that all Palestinian prisoners are treated according to Israeli and international law.