Palestinian killed by Israeli fire in West Bank clash: ministry

A Palestinian volunteer medic was killed by Israeli forces during clashes in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Sajid Muzher, 17, was killed in the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, the ministry said.

He was shot by Israeli forces while working as a volunteer medic, a ministry spokesman told AFP.

The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a statement, Palestinian health minister Jawad Awad said the "occupation's killing of a volunteer medic by shooting him in the stomach is a war crime."
Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch country director, told AFP that if confirmed the "death would mark at least the fourth clearly identifiable Palestinian medic gunned down by Israeli forces in the last year."