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AP, Jerusalem

Israeli and Palestinian officials say troops shot and killed a Palestinian as he was preparing to throw a Molotov cocktail at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Kufr Malik.

The Israeli military says he was one of three men an army patrol spotted carrying firebombs. The military says the man ignored warning fire before he was shot. The other two escaped.

Palestinian medics say the dead man's name was Aziz Yousef, 20, and that his body was handed over by Israeli officials before dawn on Thursday.

During the night, another alleged firebomber died in a Ramallah hospital after being shot Wednesday during what the military says was a mob attack on an army position in the nearby Jelazoun refugee camp. Hospital staff named him as Mohammed Ramahi, 21.