Mourners carried the body of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Salah through the streets of Jenin on Monday 14 February.

The 17-year-old was killed during an overnight raid in the West Bank city by the Israeli military.

Mourners were accompanied by men carrying guns, who occasionally fired into the air.

The boy was shot during an operation near the city to demolish the home of terror suspect Mahmoud Jaradat, currently awaiting trial in Israel.

Israel demolishes the homes of Palestinians accused of deadly terror attacks -- a policy widely criticised as collective punishment.

At least 20 others were reported injured by the military operation and the head of the local ambulance service said the Israeli forces prevented ambulances reaching the scene.

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Jenin, 14 February 2022. Mourners carry the body of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Salah, 17, who was killed after Israeli forces entered the village of Silat al-Harithiya during his funeral in the West Bank city of Jenin

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STORYLINE:

A Palestinian was killed, while 20 others were injured, by Israeli gunfire during a major military Israeli raid into the village of Silat al-Harithiya in the West Bank city of Jenin after midnight.

The Ministry of Health confirmed that Mohammad Akram Abu Salah, 17, from the village of al-Yamoun, has succumbed to his injuries that he sustained in the head by an Israeli gunfire.

The director of the ambulance in Jenin, Mahmoud Al-Saadi, stated that the Israeli forces prevented ambulances from entering the town to treat and transport the injured, while WAFA correspondent reported that the continuous confrontations with the forces resulted in dozens of tear gas wounds, along with the wounded.

A large forces of the forces stormed last night the town of Al-Silah Al-Harithiya and closed all the entrances and roads leading to it.

Security sources told WAFA that an Israeli military force backed by bulldozers stormed the town from all sides, and closed all the roads leading to it and the those linking it to the neighboring town of Yamoun, while a number of soldiers climbed the roofs of the houses, stormed the family house of prisoner Mahmoud Jaradat and took its measurements.



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