The US State Department has said it is aware of the killing by Israeli forces of a Palestinian American teenager in the Israel-occupied West Bank and was seeking more information about the incident, Reuters reports.
A State Department spokesperson made the comments to reporters when asked about the killing of US citizen Omar Mohammad Rabea, aged 14, and the shooting of two other teenagers.
“We are certainly aware of that dynamic,” the State Department spokesperson said.
“There is an investigation that is going on. We are aware of the reports from the IDF that this was a counterterrorism act, we need to learn more about the nature of what happened on the ground.”
“We don’t have the complete picture of what was going on on the ground,” the State Department spokesperson added.