AL QUDS, July 8: An Israeli guard killed a Palestinian teenager on Friday while shooting to disperse stone-throwing protesters at a barrier being built near the Israeli-West Bank boundary, Israeli police said.

Medics at Ramallah Hospital confirmed they had the body of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy shot in the chest at the site but would not give further details.

Israeli police said an armed Israeli guard had opened fire when protesters hurled rocks at them near the village of Beit Likiya in the West Bank, killing a Palestinian teenager.

The shooting occurred at a site where Israel has erected parts of a barrier it says it needs to keep suicide bombers from its cities and whose construction Palestinians denounce as a land grab.

The guard was taken for questioning.—Reuters