Four Palestinians were killed in yet another day of tension in the Palestinian territories.
A 13-year-old boy was found dead late Sunday in Ramallah, reported Al Jazirah satellite channel.
Jewish settlers are suspected of murdering the boy, according to the channel.
Earlier, a member of the Palestinian Fateh movement, Samih el-Marabi, was killed in a mysterious explosion in the Kalandia refugee camp near Jerusalem, reported The Jerusalem Post newspaper.
It was unclear whether the man was killed as he was preparing an explosive device or not, according to the report.
Fateh blamed Israel for the death, added the paper, while the Israeli army said it could neither confirm nor deny involvement in the death.
In another incident, three roadside bombs were discovered Sunday by Israeli patrols on the road between Jerusalem and Ramallah, said the paper.
It said that army sappers safely detonated the devices and there were no injuries.
In a separate incident, two Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers on the same day near the Rafah terminal at the crossing point between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, although the circumstances of their death were not immediately clear, hospital officials told AFP.
Iyad Mohammed Daoud, 27, and Ahmed Abdel Jalil Kassas, 33, were shot dead and a third man, whose identity was not immediately available, was seriously wounded, the agency said.
The latest deaths raise to 339 the number of people killed since the start of the Israeli-Palestinian violence at the end of September, most of them Palestinians – (Several Sources)
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