Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian teenager in a clash with stone-throwing protesters near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian medical officials and security sources say.
They named the dead youth as Orwa Hammad, 17, and said he was shot in the village of Silwad on Friday.
The army, however, said that troops deployed at Silwad to protect a major road used widely by Israeli settlers, spotted a person about to hurl a petrol bomb at traffic.
"The forces fired immediately to neutralise the danger ... and confirmed a hit," a spokeswoman said.
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