APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Nablus - 06 May 2021. Mourners carry the body 16-year-old Said Youssef Muhammad Oudeh on a stretcher, during his funeral in the northern Odla area of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, on May 6, 2021. - The Israeli army shot and killed the Palestinian teenager in the West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said. The Israeli army said that Molotov cocktails were thrown at soldiers "during a routine operation south of Nablus
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The Israeli army has shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Sixteen-year-old Said Youssef Muhammad Oudeh "succumbed to his grave wounds caused by live bullets" fired by Israeli troops in the northern Odla area near Nablus, the ministry added. The Israeli army said that Molotov cocktails were thrown at soldiers "during a routine operation south of Nablus". "The soldiers acted to stop the suspects by opening fire on them," the army said, adding that no soldiers were injured and that the incident would be investigated.
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