The Israeli military says its troops shot Omar Rabea, 14, and two other boys because they were throwing stones towards a highway.

A Palestinian-American teenager has been shot and killed by an Israeli Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities have said. Palestinian officials identified the 14-year-old as Omar Mohammed Rabea and said he was near a settlement in Turmus Aya when the settler opened fire.

With raids on refugee camps, air strikes and forced displacements, the Palestinian territory is the scene of a war that does not declare itself as such.