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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli forces arrested the local head of a Palestinian militant group in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday night, Israel Defense Forces said.
An Israeli border police officer runs for cover after hurling a tear gas canister.
"Muhammad Isa Halil Abeda commanded several Islamic Jihad terror cells and was involved in the planning and funding of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers," an IDF statement said.
Abeda surrendered several hours after Israeli forces surrounded his home.
During the same incident, Israeli forces killed Qussai Mohammed al-Afandi, a 17-year-old member of the militant group, Palestinian medical and security forces said Monday. Four others in the house were wounded.
The IDF said a riot erupted afterward as Palestinians began throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at Israeli forces, who responded with riot dispersal methods that included shooting live ammunition toward the Palestinians' lower limbs. E-mail to a friend 
CNN's Tala Abu-Rahmi contributed to this report.
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