RAMALLAH, Palestine 

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager and wounded two others during a raid late Sunday in the West Bank.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced in a brief statement that 14-year-old Ahmad Rashid Rushdi Jazar was shot to death in the town of Sebastia northwest of Nablus.

In the southern West Bank, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said its teams transported two injured people to the hospital. One was a 17-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the hand and the other was an 11-year-old child injured during clashes in the town of Idhna.

Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that the Israeli army raided the town for about two hours before withdrawing. Clashes erupted during the raid, with the use of live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas.

The developments came as hundreds of families of Palestinian prisoners gathered near Israel's Ofer Prison in the West Bank awaiting the release of 90 prisoners, most of them women and children, as part of the first phase of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas amid a celebratory atmosphere, according to an Anadolu correspondent.

Over the past few years, the Israeli military has conducted regular raids in the West Bank, which have escalated with the beginning of the war on Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. Palestinians have also been violently attacked by illegal Israeli settlers.

At least 859 Palestinians have since been killed and over 6,700 injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied territory, according to the Health Ministry.

In July 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian land illegal and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala