RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian who was among a group that refused to stop throwing rocks at passing drivers on a road in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army said on Saturday.
Palestinian officials said a 16-year-old had been killed.
The army said a number of suspects had hurled rocks “endangering civilians” who were driving on a main road near the city of Ramallah.
“Soldiers at the scene operated to stop the suspects in accordance with standard operating procedures, using live fire as a last resort,” it added.
The mayor of Silwad, a Palestinian village nearby, said residents had “announced a general strike in the village denouncing this crime”.
(Reporting by Ali Sawafta and Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Pravin Char)
