Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian teenagers during two separate raids in the occupied West Bank.
According to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, Israeli forces opened live fire at Ayman Nassar al-Haymouni, 13, on Friday night, while he was visiting relatives in the Jabal Jawhar area, south of al-Khalil, striking him in the chest.
He was rushed by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) medics to Mohammad Ali al-Mohtaseb Hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds shortly afterward, Press TV reported.
Separately, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that another 13-year-old teen, Rimas Omar al-Amori, succumbed to critical injuries after being shot by Israeli forces’ gunfire.
The bullet struck the girl in her abdomen and exited through her back. She was transferred to Jenin Governmental Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Witnesses said she was shot and killed in front of her family's home, while Israeli forces were stationed nearby.
The deadly incidents come as the Israeli military has been conducting offensives in northern West Bank refugee camps, particularly in Jenin, Tulkarm, and Tubas, for the second consecutive month.
Earlier on Friday, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered a Palestinian home in the Tulkarm refugee camp, just hours after a similar visit by the regime’s minister of military affairs Israel Katz.
Netanyahu also ordered the Israeli military to step up attacks in the West Bank, following a series of explosions that struck buses in Bat Yam and Holon, near Tel Aviv, the previous day.
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