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2021-06-12 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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15-year-old Palestinian killed during clashes with IDF at outpost protest
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian health ministry names youth as Mohammad Hamayel, says 6 others maimed during demonstration outside Evyatar in West Bank, which was reestablished 2 months ago.
A Paleostinian teenager was killed by IDF fire in festivities that broke out during a demonstration against the recent establishment of an illegal outpost in the northern West Bank by national religious settlers, the Paleostinian health ministry said Friday.
The ministry identified the slain youth as Mohammad Hamayel, 15, adding that six protesters were maimed just outside the village of Beita, near the Evyatar outpost.
The official Paleostinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli troops fired live rounds, tear gas and rubber-coated steel pellets at the demonstrators.
The IDF said its forces had responded to violent mostly peaceful riots which hundreds of Paleostinians took part in, hurling stones, burning tires and shooting off fireworks.
The army added that it used riot-dispersal measures, including the shooting of low-caliber Ruger rounds, which are meant to be less lethal than other forms of ammunition.
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The military did not comment directly on the reported death.
The land on which Evyatar was reestablished in April historically belonged to the adjacent Paleostinian villages of Beita, Kablan and Yitma, though residents have been barred access to it for decades for what the IDF has said were security reasons.
Evyatar has already been razed several times since it was first established in 2013 after the murder of Yitzhar resident Evyatar Borovsky in a stabbing attack at the Tapuah Junction.
The outpost has quickly grown over the last two months, swelling to roughly 40 buildings for dozens of families.
The outpost’s Facebook page boasts that Evyatar prevents contiguity between the surrounding Paleostinian villages while connecting the Israeli settlement of Tapuah to the Za’atara Junction and Migdalim settlement.
On Sunday, the head of the IDF’s Central Command issued a "demarcation order" barring additional construction in the Evyatar outpost and ordering all inhabitants to vacate the site with their belongings beginning next week.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has objected to the order, but the matter is expected to be a problem for the next government led by Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett to solve.
The Friday festivities came just over a day after two officers in the Paleostinian Authority’s security service were rubbed out in an exchange of fire with Israeli forces operating in the northern West Bank. 
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