“Qusai was shot with six bullets during these clashes, four times in the chest and one bullet in each of his legs,” Yousef Al-Amour, the teenager’s uncle, said on Tuesday. The soldiers then carried him off “and started throwing his body around as if he wasn’t a human being,” his uncle said, speaking by telephone from the wake in Tekoa, hours after his nephew’s funeral.

The Palestinian Authority’s governor of the Bethlehem district, speaking on Palestinian radio, described the teenager’s death as an “execution.”

The Israeli military said in a statement that “hundreds of violent rioters” had confronted the security forces, who fired on and wounded “a main violent instigator.” In the process of evacuating him, the military said, the forces came under a barrage of rocks, which caused them to remove him hastily. The military added that the episode was under review.

The West Bank has long been volatile, but a recent increase in Palestinian attacks against Israelis and accusations of excessive use of force by Israeli soldiers have added to the tensions. An Israeli soldier was recently convicted in a military court of manslaughter after fatally shooting a wounded and subdued Palestinian assailant in the head.