The coordinator of a settlement security squad shot dead a Palestinian teenager on Friday after a group of settlers illegally entered an area on the outskirts of a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank, sparking clashes with locals.

It was the latest incident in recent weeks of settlers entering Area B of the West Bank, which is off-limits to Israelis, on what was dubbed as a “hike.”

Last month, settlers conducted a similar “hike” through the northern West Bank Palestinian village of Tel, sparking clashes that resulted in the deaths of two Israelis and four Palestinians.

Friday’s incident took place outside the village of Sa’ir.

Footage showed a building on fire after Palestinians said it was torched by settlers trespassing through the area.

The settlers embarked from the nearby ultra-Orthodox settlement of Metzad, on what the army acknowledged was an unauthorized excursion.

Palestinians began hurling stones at the trespassing settlers, the IDF said, adding........

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