Palestinian officials have identified the 14 -year -old American citizen like Omar Mohammed Rabea.
Israeli forces opened fire on a group of children in occupied West Bank, killing a 14-year-old Palestinian-American boy and injuring at least two others, according to the WAFA news agency.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the victim on Sunday as Omar Mohammed Rabea and said that he had been killed near the city of Turmus Aya, northeast of the city of Ramallah.
Previous reports from the mayor of the city suggested that it was an Israeli colonist who had shot the bullets.
The attack comes in the middle of a strong increase in Israeli violence against the Palestinians in occupied West Bank, including a large -scale offensive in the north of the territory which killed at least 99 people.
According to United Nations figures, about 17 of the victims were children.
According to Wafa, Israeli officials arrested Rabea, later pronounced him dead and continue to hold his body.
Two other Palestinian boys, aged 14 and 15, were slaughtered in the attack that killed Rabea, the agency reported. The boys, who hold citizenship of the United States, were injured in the abdomen and thigh and were transferred by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRC) to the hospital to be treated.
Laila Ghanem, the governor of Ramallah and El-Bireh, returned them to the hospital and sentenced the attack.
She said that the deadly aggression comes in “in the context of organized terrorism in progress” by the State of Israel and accused the Israeli army of having deliberately targeted Palestinian children of destroying the Palestinian people.
The victim’s family has not yet made a public statement, but they have expressed his sorrow about her loss.
Israeli forces have opened an investigation into the murder, but there was no immediate commentary by the authorities. The Israeli soldiers and the settlers mostly operate without fear of judicial repercussions in the Palestinian regions.
There have been several cases of American citizens killed by Israelis in occupied West Bank.
In 2024, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old Turkish-American activist, was killed by an Israeli soldier while protested against illegal Israeli colonies, according to witnesses.
Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist for Al Jazeera, was also killed by the Israeli army in 2022 when he reported an occupied West Bank, although he was clearly identified as a member of the press.
