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Palestinians Say Teen Killed by Israeli Army in West Bank Clashes

File photo: Israeli soldiers secure the area at the Huwara checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Nablus, Nov. 4, 2020. (AP)
File photo: Israeli soldiers secure the area at the Huwara checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Nablus, Nov. 4, 2020. (AP)
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Palestinians Say Teen Killed by Israeli Army in West Bank Clashes

File photo: Israeli soldiers secure the area at the Huwara checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Nablus, Nov. 4, 2020. (AP)
File photo: Israeli soldiers secure the area at the Huwara checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Nablus, Nov. 4, 2020. (AP)

A 16-year-old Palestinian was killed Thursday by Israeli fire during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

It was the latest bloodshed in the region that has seen Israeli-Palestinian tensions surge for almost a year. An Israeli rights group said earlier this week that 2022 was the deadliest year for Palestinians since 2004, a period of intense violence that came during a Palestinian uprising.

Palestinian health officials said Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16, died after he was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers, AFP reported.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA said Abu Zeitoun was shot during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers during an army arrest raid. It was not immediately clear if Abu Zeitoun was taking part in the confrontations.

The Israeli army did not immediately comment on the incident.

The Israeli military has been conducting near-daily raids into Palestinian cities and towns since a spate of Palestinian attacks against Israelis killed 19 last spring.

Nearly 150 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank and east Jerusalem last year, according to B’Tselem’s figures, making 2022 the deadliest since 2004, when 197 Palestinians were killed. A fresh wave of attacks killed at least another nine Israelis in the fall.

The Israeli army says most of the Palestinians killed have been “militants”. But stone-throwing youths protesting the incursions and others not involved in confrontations have also been killed.

Israel says the raids are meant to dismantle "militant" networks and thwart future attacks. The Palestinians see them as further entrenchment of Israel’s 55-year, open-ended occupation of the West Bank.

Israel captured the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war and the Palestinians seek those territories for a future state.

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Coalition Carries out Military Operation in Yemen’s Hodeidah to Protect Marine Navigation

Coalition spokesman Major General Turki al-Malki. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Coalition spokesman Major General Turki al-Malki. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Coalition Carries out Military Operation in Yemen’s Hodeidah to Protect Marine Navigation

Coalition spokesman Major General Turki al-Malki. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Coalition spokesman Major General Turki al-Malki. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen announced on Monday that naval forces carried out a military operation in the Hodeidah governorate as part of its goals to protect marine navigation in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

In a post on the X platform, Coalition spokesman Major General Turki al-Malki said the operation destroyed legitimate terrorist Houthi militia military targets.

The Coalition obstructed plans for attacks and a network that was targeting waterways in the southern Red Sea.

It confirmed the destruction of weapons warehouses, sea mines and booby-trapped vessels, added the spokesman.

Earlier on Monday, the Coalition announced that 100 fighter jets were taking part in Operation Yemen Dawn that was launched by the legitimate Yemeni government to liberate territories held by the Houthis.

Al-Malki said the Coalition was providing “around the clock” aerial support for the Yemeni armed forces on the ground, revealing that the air forces were securing the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

He added that 324 “high value” targets have been destroyed since the launch of the operation.

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At Oct 7 Memorial, Netanyahu Says Will Be No Hamas Rule in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the State Memorial Ceremony for the three year anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack - REUTERS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the State Memorial Ceremony for the three year anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack - REUTERS
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At Oct 7 Memorial, Netanyahu Says Will Be No Hamas Rule in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the State Memorial Ceremony for the three year anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack - REUTERS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the State Memorial Ceremony for the three year anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack - REUTERS

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed there would be no Hamas rule in Gaza as he attended a memorial event marking three years since the October 7, 2023 attack.

Speaking during a state ceremony at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said "we have achieved enormous accomplishments, but there are still missions ahead of us, and we intend to complete them".

"There will be no Hamas rule in Gaza," he added, vowing to continue targeting anyone who was involved in the attack or who held hostages.

The Hamas-led attack resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures. Militants also dragged 251 hostages into Gaza, 44 of them already dead.

In response, Israel launched a massive military offensive that has killed more than 74,200 people in Gaza, according to the territory's health ministry, which is under Hamas authority and whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations.

Since a ceasefire was declared last October, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,440 people in Gaza, according to the ministry.

Plans for Gaza's post-war governance have begun to take shape, but the issue remains largely unresolved in practice.

Since Hamas's October 2023 attack, Israel has fought wars on several fronts, including against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.

During his speech on Monday, Netanyahu also vowed to keep striking Hezbollah to "create an opportunity for peace with a country whose people, for the most part, want peace with us".

Netanyahu also hit out at the clerical leadership in Iran, where Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on February 28, triggering the Middle East war.

"We will not allow the ayatollah regime in Tehran to threaten our existence," Netanyahu said, adding the Iranian leadership was "weaker than it has been since its establishment".

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Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian in West Bank

A blue body bag containing the body of a Palestinian man shot by Israeli forces in an incident in which a car hit a military jeep, is guarded as it lies on the road close to the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Bani Naim on October 5, 2026. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
A blue body bag containing the body of a Palestinian man shot by Israeli forces in an incident in which a car hit a military jeep, is guarded as it lies on the road close to the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Bani Naim on October 5, 2026. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
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Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian in West Bank

A blue body bag containing the body of a Palestinian man shot by Israeli forces in an incident in which a car hit a military jeep, is guarded as it lies on the road close to the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Bani Naim on October 5, 2026. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
A blue body bag containing the body of a Palestinian man shot by Israeli forces in an incident in which a car hit a military jeep, is guarded as it lies on the road close to the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Bani Naim on October 5, 2026. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Israeli forces killed one Palestinian and injured two others in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinian authorities said, while the military said troops fired at a car that had hit an army vehicle.

The military said a "vehicle carrying three suspects... accelerated toward an army vehicle and hit it" in the area of Bani Naim, north of the city of Hebron.

In a statement, it said no injuries were reported among Israeli forces and that soldiers "responded by firing toward the vehicle, and hits were identified."

The Palestinian General Authority for Civil Affairs said "Israeli forces opened fire on a civilian vehicle" at the entrance to Bani Naim, without giving details on whether those inside had been attempting to ram soldiers, according to AFP.

"One citizen was killed and two young men sustained serious and moderate injuries," it added, saying the wounded had been transferred to hospitals inside Israel and that the identity of the deceased remained unknown.

Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 and violence there has surged since October 7, 2023.

More than 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank in settlements illegal under international law, a minority of whom engage in violence towards Palestinians.

According to an AFP tally based on data from the Palestinian health ministry, Israeli forces or settlers have killed 1,112 Palestinians in the territory since the start of the Gaza war.

Israeli figures show at least 49 Israelis, including civilians and security personnel, have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations during the same period.