Palestinian teenager shot dead in West Bank

GAZA, 25 August 2021, (TON):  An unarmed Palestinian teenager died on Tuesday after being shot in the head by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank.

Imad Hashash, 15, was killed during an Israeli raid on the Balata refugee camp in Nablus.

Israel claimed its soldiers were attacked by people throwing large stone blocks from rooftops.

Israeli warplanes also carried out a series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip overnight, targeting a Hamas weapons manufacturing site, a tunnel and an underground rocket launch site.

The army said it struck an additional tunnel after Hamas fired machineguns across the border.

Israel said “it was responding to incidents, when Palestinian activists launched incendiary balloons into Israel, starting at least three fires.”

Tensions have been rising between Israel and Hamas, with the latter frustrated over the slow pace of ceasefire talks that it hopes will ease an Israeli blockade over the territory.

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