According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the Israeli Army was carrying out “a wide-scale search operation targeting several homes”. File.
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Israeli forces killed a 17-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Thursday (April 16, 2026), according to Palestinian officials, as the Israeli military said its troops had “neutralised a terrorist”.
Mohammed Murad Mahmud Rayan was “killed by the (Israeli) occupation forces on Thursday morning in Beit Duqqu”, a village just north of Jerusalem, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement.
Published – April 16, 2026 11:39 pm IST
