Another teenager has been shot dead by Israeli forces this morning in the Dheisheh refugee camp, south of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, taking the fresh death toll to three persons including two children.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Adam Issam Shaker Ayyad, was killed following an Israeli military raid when he was shot in the chest.
A large number of Israeli forces raided the refugee camp before dawn and ransacked several residential houses while arresting several residents, triggering protests from locals.
The heavily-armed Israeli occupation forces stormed the village in military bulldozers and shot at protesters with live fire and tear gas.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry described the killing as a "heinous crime of execution", and said, "Israel's continued impunity encourages it to commit crimes against our children."
"It is an extension of the series of extrajudicial killings and a part of Israel's targeting of Palestinian children in general," the statement added.
Adam is the third Palestinian to be killed by Israel since the start of the new year.
Two Palestinian men were shot dead yesterday in the northern city of Jenin, during a raid on the village of Kufr Dan in the northern occupied West Bank.
There has been an increase in the number of Israeli raids across the occupied West Bank over the past year coupled with violence carried out by illegal settlers.
Last year, Israeli forces killed 224 Palestinians in the occupied territories, 52 of them from the besieged Gaza Strip.