NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians who attacked a soldier in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the army said. The violence brought to four the number of Palestinian deaths in 24 hours and heightened tension that has been growing. A Palestinian youth shot by Israeli forces on Saturday died from his wounds on Sunday, Palestinian ...

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian youth shot by Israeli forces died from his wounds Sunday, Palestinian medics said, the second death from the same incident Saturday that may fuel tensions in the occupied West Bank. Osaid al-Kaddous, 17, was fatally wounded in a confrontation between Israeli forces and Palestinian youths, who had been throwing stones, in the Palestinian village ...

Israeli troops shot dead a young Palestinian stone-thrower and critically wounded another on Saturday in the West Bank village of Burin, Palestinian medics and security officials said. They said troops entered the village, south of Nablus, to prevent clashes between local Palestinians and Israelis from the nearby settlement of Bracha who were in the area. Medics named the Palestinian demonstrator ...

Israeli army prosecutors on Thursday charged two soldiers for using a young Palestinian boy to check for booby-traps during last year's fighting in Gaza, a military spokeswoman told AFP. She said the two soldiers, both staff sergeants, were charged of acting "in breach of military norms" for forcing the boy to open bags they feared might be rigged with ...