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RAMALLAH (Ma’an): Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian teenager during clashes in al-Tawil Hill neighborhood in al-Bireh city in the central West Bank Saturday night.
Locals said clashes broke out between Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers deployed around the illegal Israeli settlement of Psagot.
Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition at the Palestinians, hitting a 15-year-old boy twice in the leg, witnesses said.
He was evacuated in a private car to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said she was looking into the incident.
So far this year, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that Israeli forces have injured on average 39 Palestinians per week. They have killed 13 Palestinians in total, including two since the beginning of this month.
