Two Palestinians killed in West Bank clashes
Mourners carry the body of 16-year-old Palestinian Sami Mashayekh during his funeral. Photo: AFP
The Palestinian health ministry said Friday that Israeli forces fatally shot two teenagers overnight in the town of Kufr Aqab in the occupied West Bank.
“The young man Amr Khaled Ahmed Al-Marbou (18) and the boy Sami Ibrahim Sami Mashayekh (16) were martyred by occupation forces gunfire in the town of Kufr Aqab near Ramallah,” the ministry said in a statement.
The army and the Israeli police, which has authority in the area, did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported transporting two people from Kufr Aqab to a hospital during the night, one with a “very serious live bullet injury” and the second with a “live bullet injury to the chest”.
Oday al-Shurfa, a friend of Marbou who said he witnessed the incident, told AFP the pair were out on the street during clashes between Israeli forces and local Palestinians, and were shot by the Israeli forces.