A Palestinian teenager was killed by the Israeli army this morning in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian sources said.
The 16-year-old was throwing stones at Israeli troops moving into the Old City when tanks retaliated with machine-gun fire, the sources said.
Earlier, Israeli forces killed two people in a raid on a Gaza Strip town and wounded four others in a helicopter gunship attack nearby, Palestinian sources said.
The army surrounded a house and a fierce gunbattle erupted, the sources said, adding that six other Palestinians were wounded in the clashes.
The helicopter fired two missiles at a car carrying three members of the Islamic Jihad group between the town of Beit Lahiya and Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, injuring one of them and three bystanders, Palestinian security sources said.
They said the men leapt out of the vehicle as the Apache helicopter struck. The car's driver was wounded in the attack. A Palestinian youth, a police officer and a third bystander were also hurt, the sources said.
Israeli officials had no immediate comment on the helicopter strike.
The militant Islamic Jihad group said one of its field commanders, who was in the vehicle, was apparently the target of the attack but was unhurt.
Israeli troops earlier killed two people and destroyed a three-story apartment building in a raid on Beit Lahiya to destroy family homes of militants, witnesses said.
Israel this morning also ordered the demolition of15 Palestinian houses between the settlement of Kiryat Arba and Jewish enclave in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. One of the houses was used two weeks ago by Palestinian snipers who opened fire on a patrol using the road, killing 12 people, including nine soldiers.