TEL AVIV - A 17-year-old Palestinian has been killed in clashes with the Israeli army during a military operation in a refugee camp in Nablus in the West Bank.
The local health ministry reported the news. The news agency WAFA reported that the young man was named Hamza Amjad Al-Ashqar.
Haaretz quoted the Nablus-based armed Palestinian organisation known as the Lions' Den as saying that Ashqar had been killed in a "shootout" after the soldiers entered the camp.