Palestinian authorities say Israeli army kills teenager in the West Bank

Editor's ChoiceInternationalPalestinian authorities say Israeli army kills teenager in the West BankBy AFP -Aug 24, 2026Add ARY News on Googleimage: afpAAResizeRamallah, Palestinian Territories: Israel’s military killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian health authorities said, while an Israeli and a Palestinian were wounded in separate incidents. Israeli gunfire killed Islam Ahmad Maher Ajouri, 14, in the Askar refugee camp where he lived, outside Nablus in the north of the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry announced. Mohammed Abu Kashk, head of the Askar camp services committee, told AFP that the teenager was killed by Israeli forces during a raid on the camp. “There were no clashes or confrontations that would justify shooting a child and killing him,” he said. According to a source from the Palestinian Red Crescent, Ajouri was hit in the chest by live ammunition. He was pronounced dead at Nablus National Hospital. At his funeral, his uncle Ahmed Mohamed Zamzoum told AFP that the boy went outside during the army raid. “Every time the Israeli forces enter, one or more martyrs are killed,” he said. The Israeli army told AFP it was verifying the information. In a separate incident, the army said it apprehended a man suspected of stabbing an Israeli earlier on Sunday in Al-Auja, in the central West Bank. UK summons Israeli envoy over West Bank settlement project Israeli rescue service Magen David Adom said the 24-year-old victim had “a penetrating wound”. The man was evacuated to a hospital in Jerusalem, and his condition was described as “moderate”. According to the initial findings of the investigation, the victim parked near a shopping centre and was “attacked from behind and stabbed in the shoulder”, Israeli police said in a statement. Hani Najum, the head of the Al-Auja village council, told AFP that “the Israeli army raided the village, deployed in its streets” and imposed a curfew. In a third incident, the ar...