JENIN, Dec 2: Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager and injured 22 other stone-throwers during a raid on Jenin on Monday, and also shot dead a man in the Gaza Strip a day after the army resumed its policy of “targeted killings”.

Another two Palestinians were killed in the territories in crossfires between Israeli troops and militants.

Israeli tanks and soldiers moved into the heart of the reoccupied West Bank city of Jenin after dawn and clashed with students on their way to school, Palestinian medical sources said.

The troops directed heavy machinegun fire at the teenagers who were throwing stones at them in a ritual of the 26-month-old uprising, killing Moataz Uda, 16, they said. Two of the wounded boys were seriously hurt.

In the nearby town of Tulkarem, a civilian was killed and seven other Palestinians, including three children, were wounded when Israeli special forces clashed with militants, Palestinian medical sources said.

In the northern Gaza Strip, an Islamic Jihad militant who entered an area near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim was shot dead by Israeli troops.

Later in the day, the Israeli army fired tank shells in response to a home-made Qassam rocket, fired near the Erez crossing point between the northern Gaza Strip and Israel.

A Palestinian worker was killed and nine others wounded in the incident, medical sources said. The wounded were hit by the rocket, while it remained unclear what killed the 36-year-old worker who died.

The renewed violence comes a day after the army resumed its policy of trying to assassinate wanted Palestinian militants.

Two helicopter-fired missiles destroyed a car in the Gaza City refugee camp carrying two members of the Al-Quds Brigades, including northern Gaza Strip leader Hmeid Shadi Mehanna.

“The Zionist terrorists are continuing their policy of assassinations, but Allah protected our brothers who ran away seconds before the missiles hit the car,” Islamic Jihad said in a statement posted on its website.

Israeli Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon was quoted by the Israeli daily Haaretz as saying a week ago in the United States that the end to the assassinations was the only condition Hamas had demanded for a ceasefire during recent talks.—AFP