The incident occurred in west Jerusalem, with assailants also targeting two other Palestinians and reportedly shouting "Death to the Arabs" as they beat the youth until he lost consciousness.
"...Dozens of youths ran and gathered and started to really beat to death three Arab youths who were walking quietly in the Ben Yehuda street," a witness said.
The incident comes a day after the firebombing of a taxi carrying a Palestinian family of five by Israeli settlers, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. The family, including two young children, sustained serious injuries.
Iman and Muhammad Hassan, four-years-old, suffered first degree burns, while their parents, Ayman and Jamila, had second and third degree burns, Ma'an news agency reported.
An Israeli military source said investigations suggested that Israeli civilians were behind the attack.
Jewish settlers regularly vandalize Palestinian property and violently attack indigenous Palestinians on their own land, often with Israel's occupying military force turning a blind eye to the attacks.
Israeli settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law.
The state of Israel was created on historic Palestine in 1948, forcing hundreds of thousands of native Palestinians to flee. Israel has maintained a military occupation of the West Bank since 1967.
Meanwhile, an Israeli military court has postponed a ruling on the administrative detention of hunger striker Hassan Safadi, Ma'an also reported.
A lawyer said that Safadi entered Ofer military court in a wheelchair and appeared tired and thin.
The 33-year-old prisoner has spent 57 days on hunger strike, which he resumed in June after his administrative detention was renewed in violation of agreements between the prison administration and prisoners rights group Addameer.
Addameer reported Thursday that Israeli prison guards brutally attacked Safadi and another hunger striker Samer al-Barq, slamming Safadi's against their cell's iron door twice, causing him to fall to the floor unconscious. Safadi and al-Barq were later taken to an isolation room with no mattresses.
Safadi has subsequently stepped up his hunger strike, announcing that he would no longer be drinking water.
Israel's draconian administrative detention policies date back to the British-mandate era of Palestine, which allows for the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable six month periods.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have slammed the policy as a violation of international humanitarian law.
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