Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the southern West Bank Wednesday, Palestinian officials said, according to dpa. Yousef Shawamreh, 15, was killed by the Israeli army near the separation barrier close to Al-Ramadin village, local official Ghazi Shawamreh confirmed. Shawamreh was hit and transported to a hospital in Israel, where he was pronounced dead. In the last week alone, the Israeli army killed a suspected Palestinian militant, a Jordanian-Palestinian judge at a border crossing, as well as three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.