RAMALLAH, Palestine

A Palestinian teen was killed Thursday by the Israeli army in the town of Meithalun in the northern occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said teams “transported a 17-year-old martyr from a main road in Meithalun near Jenin.”

It indicated that the body was transferred to the Turkish Government Hospital in Tubas.

The Israeli army fired at Palestinians during clashes that erupted in Meithalun following an incursion into the town, witnesses told Anadolu.

The fatality brings the number of deaths in the West Bank to 573 since Oct. 7, in addition to nearly 5,350 injured, according to the Health Ministry.

Tension has been running high in the occupied West Bank amid a deadly Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 38,300 victims since Oct. 7.

Israel is accused of “genocide” at the International Court of Justice, which, in its latest ruling, ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its military operation in Rafah in southern Gaza, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala