A Palestinian teenager was shot dead and at least two others injured late Tuesday after Israeli troops opened fire on the group near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Meanwhile, the Arab who was arrested for driving on Yom Kippur was sentenced to house arrest by an Israeli judge.Abdelkader Darzeid, 17, died when he was shot in the chest by Israeli troops.Eyewitnesses, say the group of boys were just harmlessly “hanging out” in the streets, the private Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency has reported
The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be illegal and Palestinians claim continued settlement constructions constitute a major hurdle in efforts to reach a peace agreement with Israel.
The United States and Israel's other allies have long urged it to remove the half million Israelis who live on occupied land in defiance of Washington's interpretation of international law.
Arab gets house arrest for Yom Kippur drive
Meanwhile, tensions continued to run high following clashes between Arabs and Jews in the Israeli city of Acre after an Arab was assaulted by Jewish youths for driving on the holy day of Yom Kippur.
The Arab man who was arrested for harming "religious sensitivities" was put under house arrest and had his driver's license suspended for a month on Wednesday, police said.
Tawfik Jamal may also be charged with reckless driving and violating religious
sensibilities for the incident last Wednesday that sparked several days of riots in the ancient Israeli-Arab city of Acre.
The riots in Acre, normally a rare example of peaceful Jewish-Arab coexistence, exposed the underlying tensions between Israel's Jewish majority and its Arab citizens who make up about a fifth of the population, and live under daily discrimination.
Arab lawmakers accused Israel of arresting Jamal for political reasons, noting that Israelis are seldom brought up on legal charges for driving on Yom Kippur or any other religious holidays when Orthodox rabbis proscribe driving.
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