NABLUS, West Bank: Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian teenager at a West Bank roadblock on Monday, and the military said he was carrying explosives.
The military said the Palestinian approached the Hawwara checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Nablus, and soldiers saw him fumbling with something that appeared to be a bomb. They ordered him to drop it, but he ignored their orders. Then they opened fire, critically wounding him. He died later in a hospital.
Later the military said he was carrying a suicide bomber's explosives belt and three pipe bombs.
A witness, taxi driver Mohammed Mustafa, told The Associated Press, "They asked him to lift up his shirt and raise his arms and then they shot him," he said.
Palestinians and the U.S. have called on Israel to remove many of the hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints it has in the West Bank, but Israel says it needs roadblocks to stop Palestinian attackers
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