Witnesses said the victim had been foraging for local plants when he was shot, but the army claimed he and two others had been vandalising the security fence.
“Three suspects sabotaged the security fence in Deir al-Asal Atachta, and soldiers at the scene called them to distance themselves and fired warning shots in the air,” an Israeli army spokeswoman said.
“After all efforts were exhausted the soldiers fired at the main instigators’ lower extremities and a hit was identified.”
The victim was evacuated to an Israeli hospital, where he died from his wounds.
But the victim’s brother, Abed Shawamreh, 23, denied the army’s account and said the teenager had been out looking for gundelia, a thistle-type plant used in cooking.
“Every year, people from the village go out to pick gundelia. Today Yussef went with his friends to pick some in an area close to the wall and the army shot at them. They hit him and arrested two of his friends,” he told AFP.
Some sources report Yousef to be 19, not 15. As if it really matters. Other eye-witness reports insist there was no warning from the Israeli troops.
This episode comes two days after a meeting between Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and US President Barack Obama at the White House, where the US leader also met in the past days with Israel’s Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, in a bid to relaunch peace talks begun in July that stalled over issues such as new settlement, the borders of the future Palestinian state, the fate of the Palestinian refugees and status of Jerusalem. And while the politicians dither, another family mourns.
AFP contributed to this report
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