Two Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in two separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday in a series of deadly clashes over the past week as a US envoy tours the region in an effort to ease tensions.
A 16-year-old boy was killed in a exchange of fire with troops conducting a raid outside the northern town of Nablus, the Palestinian Health Ministry and Israeli security forces said. Another young man in his twenties died in Kaladiya, outside Jerusalem, the Health Ministry said.
It also announced that nine other people were wounded in the exchanges of fire, one of them seriously.
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Hattie Amr is in the region on a tour aimed in part at trying to "reduce tensions," a US Embassy spokesman said.
Source: CNA
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