Israeli forces kill two Palestinian teenagers in separate West Bank incidents, as violence continues despite Gaza truce.
JERUSALEM: The Israeli military says it killed two assailants in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Monday.
The Palestinian Authority identified the deceased as a 17-year-old and an 18-year-old.
The army said the first attack was a car-ramming near Hebron that lightly injured a female soldier.
Forces pursued the attacker and shot him dead after he attempted to flee while endangering them.
The Palestinian Authority said it was informed of the death of 17-year-old Muhannad Tariq Mohammed al-Zaghir in Hebron.
The second attack occurred near Ramallah, where soldiers confronted a suspect who began stabbing them.
The soldiers responded with fire and “eliminated him,” the army statement added.
Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency services reported two lightly wounded men around 20 years old.
The Palestinian Authority identified the second fatality as 18-year-old Mohammed Raslan Mahmoud Asmar, shot north of Ramallah.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement praised the attacks as “heroic operations… against the occupation soldiers”.
Violence in the West Bank has soared since Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war.
It has continued despite a fragile truce between Israel and Hamas coming into effect in October.
Israeli troops or settlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, according to an AFP tally.
At least 44 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks or Israeli military operations, according to official Israeli figures.
