The Israeli army has said that its soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who threw stones at troops near the occupied West Bank village of Husan, whose mayor told AFP the boy was 17.

The army earlier said that “several terrorists hurled rocks toward Road 375 adjacent to Husan … Soldiers who were operating in the area responded with fire toward the terrorists, eliminated one terrorist and hit an additional terrorist”.

Husan mayor Jamal Sabateen said the army had opened fire on youngsters throwing stones in the village west of Bethlehem.

“The Israeli army opened fire on them — killed one and injured another. The army took them, and up until now, they haven’t been returned,” Sabateen told AFP.

The West Bank-based Palestinian health ministry reported the killing of the young man “by Israeli gunfire” and identified him as Yussef Zaoul.