Palestinian mourners carry the body of 16-year-old Ahmed Amjad Shehadeh, who was killed during clashes with Israeli soldiers, during his funeral in the West Bank city of Nablus.

MORE: The body of an Israeli killed in a car accident was "taken" by Palestinian militants from a West Bank Hospital Tuesday, officials said, as a teenager was killed in clashes between the army and militants.

The Israeli army said the body of an 18-year-old Israeli-Druze who died in a "serious road accident" in the West Bank was "taken" from a hospital in Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian militant factions in the north of the occupied West Bank.

Local sources told AFP the body was in the hands of an armed group.

(AFP)

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