A Palestinian teenager who was shot during a protest near Ramallah on Friday died early Saturday morning, the New York Times reports. 17-year-old Laith al-Khaldi was demonstrating after a deadly arson in the West Bank earlier on Friday killed a toddler.

An Israeli military spokesman said that soldiers had fired “in response to immediate danger” at an “assailant” who threw a firebomb towards them. According to the Times, this is the sixth fatal shooting by Israeli security forces in recent weeks:

On Friday, soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in Gaza who appeared to have been trying to scale a fence into Israel. Last Monday, a Palestinian youth died after he was shot while trying to evade arrest by running across rooftops in the crowded refugee camp where he lived.

Earlier in July, Israeli forces killed a 53-year-old Palestinian man, Falah Abu Marya, who was shot in the chest as he threw objects at soldiers who were trying to arrest his son. The day before, Israeli military forces shot and killed a 20-year-old Palestinian during a raid in Burqin, a farming town in the northern West Bank. A military spokeswoman said Israeli forces had opened fire after Palestinians ignored an order to stop throwing rocks at them.

On Friday morning, an arson attack killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh, in the West Bank hamlet of Duma. The toddler’s father Saad, his mother Riham, and his four-year-old brother Ahmad were all hospitalized with severe burns, the Times reports. The word “Revenge!” was spray-painted in Hebrew on a wall nearby next to a Star of David.

According to the Associated Press, in the West Bank city of Hebron, 2,000 Palestinian protesters took to the streets, clashing with Israeli security forces. “Israel fears the incident could spark wider unrest and has called for calm,” the AP reports.

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