IDF soldiers fatally shot a 15-year-old Palestinian on Friday during stone-throwing clashes in the West Bank, Palestinian officials said, although the Israeli military said its forces had not used live fire.
The teenager was hit by a live bullet in his abdomen and was taken for treatment at a hospital in the Palestinian city of Ramallah where he later died, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
An IDF spokesperson said soldiers had used what she described as "riot dispersal means," including the firing of rubber bullets, to confront dozens of Palestinians who were hurling stones at them and trying to roll rocks and burning tires at Israeli vehicles.
"The reports of live-fire use during the riot are not true, and claims about a number of rioters injured and one killed are known," she said.