BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territories, April  28, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - Israeli 
troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the West Bank town of Bethlehem 
Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the army said was a 
response to stone-throwing.

 "Mostafa Amer Sabah, 16, was killed by the occupation (Israeli) bullets in 
the town of Teqoa," a statement from the ministry said, without detailing the 
circumstances of the fatal shooting.

 The Israeli military said troops fired on Palestinians who "continued to 
hurl rocks towards the soldiers" in the town. 

 An AFP photographer saw relatives at a Bethlehem hospital gathering around 
Sabah's body, which was wrapped in a Palestinian flag.

The teenager's death comes a day after Israeli soldiers shot dead a 
Palestinian the army accused of attempting to carry out a car-ramming attack in 
the northern West Bank.

  Friday's shooting brings to 100 the number of Palestinians killed in the 
Israeli-Palestinian conflict so far this year. 

 Nineteen Israelis, one Ukrainian and one Italian have been killed over the 
same period, according to an AFP count based on official sources from the two 
sides.

  These figures include combatants as well as civilians, and, on the Israeli 
side, include three members of the Arab minority.