A TEENAGE Palestinian boy has died after being shot by Israeli forces in the north of the occupied West Bank.

Mohammed Saleem, 15, died in hospital after being shot in Azoun, a village near the town of Qalqilya, on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Another teenager was hit in the chest by Israeli gunfire and is being treated in hospital.

Palestinian media reported that the two were wounded as they threw stones at Israeli troops who had entered the village.

The Israeli military said that its forces opened fire after Palestinians threw fireworks at military vehicles moving along a nearby road and that when soldiers arrived, the locals threw firebombs at them.

Israeli troops have been conducting near-daily raids in supposedly Palestinian-run areas of the West Bank as violence that began last spring continues.

Since the start of this year, 64 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. During the same period, 14 Israelis have died in Palestinian attacks.

This year has already become one of the deadliest periods of Israeli-Palestinian violence for years.

Meanwhile, an Israeli court convicted four Jewish Israelis of incitement to violence and terror for participating in a wedding at which participants celebrated an arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents.

The 2015 attack on the village of Duma in the West Bank killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents Riham and Saad.

Months after the attack, a video from a wedding that aired on Israeli television appeared to show guests at a wedding brandishing rifles and dancing to music with lyrics calling for revenge, while some stabbed photos of the murdered baby.

The four suspects were minors at the time of the wedding and were originally acquitted by a juvenile court.