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A 15-year old Palestinian died overnight in an Israeli hospital after being shot by Israeli soldiers, Palestinian medical workers said on Tuesday.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers shot the boy near the illegal Jewish settlement Beit El, near Ramallah in West Bank. He was taken to a hospital in Jerusalem, she said.
Three rescue workers were injured, according to medics, while Israel said just one was hurt Maan news agency said.
Palestinian medical sources identified the victim as Muhammad Nayif from Jalazun Refugee Camp, north of Ramallah in the West Bank.
The Israeli military spokeswoman said the boy was involved in suspected "hostilities".
Palestinian residents of the nearby Jalazone refugee camp said they heard the shooting and saw soldiers surrounding the youth some 400 meters from the settlement's perimeter.
Soldiers also obstructed a Palestine Red Crescent ambulance from reaching the injured boy, medical officials said.
Three rescue workers were shot by Israeli fire, one of them an ambulance driver, who was en route to pick up the injured boy.
After what medical officials said was a preliminary investigation, the wounded were determined to be medics from Jalazun camp.
About half a million Jewish settlers live among some 2.5 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, land Israel captured in a 1967 war that Palestinians want for a future state.
PHOTO CAPTION
An Israeli soldier uses his rifle to indicate the direction as he tells a Palestinian boy to leave at a nearby checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.
Agencies
