- Title: WEST BANK: PALESTINIANS AND ISRAEL TROOPS CLASH IN NABLUS
- Date: 27th December 2003
- Summary: (W5) NABLUS, WEST BANK (DECEMBER 27, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF WOUNDED PALESTINIAN BEING CARRIED INTO AMBULANCE / AMBULANCE DRIVING 0.33 2. WIDE OF SMOKE COMING OUT OF TANK 0.42 3. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS THROWING ROCKS / STONES AT TANK (3 SHOTS) 1.06 4. WIDE OF PALESTINIANS ON ROOF TOPS THROWING STONES AT TANK 1.16 5.
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- Location: NABLUS AND QALQILYA, WEST BANK
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVAAJEDWU0YJZVXGTZ21C052UTR3
- Story Text: Palestinian teenager killed in clashes
with Israeli army in Nablus.
Israeli troops scouring a West Bank militant
stronghold killed a Palestinian teenager and wounded at
least 17 other people in clashes with stone-throwers on
Saturday (December 27), witnesses and medics said.
They said a 17-year-old was fatally shot in the chest
while confronting troops who have stepped up searches in
Nablus since a local suicide bomber killed three off-duty
Israeli soldiers and a teenage girl outside Tel Aviv on
Thursday (December 25).
Six of the wounded Palestinians were shot by live
ammunition and 11 by rubber bullets in several clashes,
witnesses and medics said.
A military spokesman denied troops fired live
ammunition, saying they responded with rubber bullets and
tear gas after coming under a barrage of stones and Molotov
cocktails in various areas of Nablus. He had no word on the
casualties.
In Qalqilya, hundreds of peace activists demonstrated
against the construction of what they call the "Separation
Wall" that Israel is building in the West Bank.
During what they called "The National Day for the
Racist Separation Wall" the demonstrators climbed on the
wall and demanded that Israel halt its construction.
Israeli troops threw smoke grenades at demonstrators.
Medics said 13 protesters were treated for smoke
inhalation.
Palestinians call the network of fences and concrete
barriers Israel is erecting in the West Bank a land-grab,
deciding borders that should be negotiated. Israel says the
barrier is needed to keep out Palestinian suicide bombers.
On Friday, troops shot and wounded an Israeli and an
American among protesters who attacked the barrier near
Qalqilya. The army said it was investigating the incident.
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