Mourners carried the body of Mohammed Jihad Dudeen, 15, in the West Bank town of Dura on Friday. 

West Bank - Israeli troops killed a Palestinian youth before dawn Friday and seriously injured several adults. About 25 Palestinians were rounded up overnight. The arrests bring the total detained since Saturday to 330. Witnesses in Dura, a West Bank town of 28,000 near Hebron, said Mohammed Jihad Dudeen, 15, was fatally shot around 5 a.m. The boy was hit in his heart and his abdomen.”

By noon Friday, Mohammed’s mother, Aida Abdel Aziz Dudeen, 39, sat in her living room robed in black mourning clothes, clutching a portrait of her son.

A neighbor, Iman Abdel Alal, said Israeli troops damaged her home as they searched it in the early hours. “The soldiers kept me and four children and my husband in one room and told me, ‘You are Hamas!” Ms. Alal said. Mohammed was the second Palestinian casualty in Israel’s operation, following Monday’s death of a 20-year-old in the Jalazoun refugee camp near Ramallah. One of the three hurt in Qalandiya, Mustafa Alsan, 20, was fighting for his life in an hospital Friday afternoon after being shot in the head. Salah al-Bardaweel, a prominent Hamas leader in Gaza, said on Thursday. “We will not stand idly by in the face of the crimes of the occupation in the West Bank.”

Alongside the arrests, Israel has tightened restrictions on Palestinian travel around Hebron, the West Bank’s largest city; limited exit from the West Bank into Jordan; all but closed its crossings into Gaza; and punished Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Early Friday, Israel bombed five Gaza sites.Four children and two others were injured in the strikes.
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