He Israeli army has killed a Palestinian teenager 17 years old during a military operation in the north of West Bank occupied, amid the worst spike in violence in the area since 2002, the height of the Second Intifada.

“The young man Rashid Habib al Aidi, 17, was killed by occupation bullets in the Al Fara camp, south of Tubas,” the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian National Authority reported this Monday. The minor was shot in the chest and died because efforts to revive him failed, according to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa.

“The soldiers They attacked the camp “causing clashes with residents,” he added. When consulted by the Efe agency, the Israeli Army has not provided information in this regard. This Sunday alone, an Israeli drone attack killed five Palestinians in Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank.

West Bank and Israel live its most violent year in two decades, and so far in 2023 alone, 506 Palestinians have died in violent events, most of them militiamen in armed clashes with Israeli troops and attackers, but also civilians, including more than 110 minors. Of that number, 298 Palestinians, including at least 72 minors, have died since October 7, as attacks intensified in the area due to the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

In parallel, the area has seen the proliferation of new Palestinian armed groupswhich carry out more and more attacks and have left 41 dead on the Israeli side, most of them settlers, five of them minors, and seven uniformed men.