GHAZA, 15 February 2022, (TON): Israeli forces have shot dead a 17-year-old Palestinian in West Bank clashes during what Israel on Monday described as an operation to demolish the home of a terrorist suspected of a recent attack.

The Palestinian health ministry said Mohammed Abu Salah was killed in the village of Silat Al-Harithiya near the flashpoint town of Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Israel’s army in a statement said its troops along with border police had entered the village “to demolish the floor of the residence in which the terrorist Muhammad Jaradat resided.”

It said “Jaradat and others had carried out the recent fatal shooting of a Jewish settler in the West Bank.”

The army said “violent riots broke out ahead of the planned demolition, with the participation of hundreds of Palestinians, some of whom hurled explosives at Israeli troops.”

The army statement said “the troops identified a number of armed rioters, and fired toward them in order to neutralize the threat.”

Israel regularly destroys the homes of individuals it says have carried out attacks on Israelis, in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.