WEST BANK: Palestinian officials say 18-year-old shot dead by Israeli army in the West Bank

Record ID: 561810

  • Title: WEST BANK: Palestinian officials say 18-year-old shot dead by Israeli army in the West Bank
  • Date: 14th September 2008
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF BODY OF 18-YEAR-OLD PALESTINIAN BOY WHO IS SAID TO BE SHOT DEAD BY ISRAELI SOLDIERS NEAR THE SETTLEMENT OF TKOA RELATIVE TRYING TO APPROACH BODY WIDE OF ENTRANCE TO HOSPITAL
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  • Story Text: A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli troops on Saturday (September 13), hours after Jewish settlers clashed with residents of a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank and the stabbing of an Israeli boy.
    Palestinian security officials said the 18-year-old was shot by troops after he and a group of Palestinian youths had hurled stones at an army patrol vehicle near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
    An Israeli army spokesman said he was checking the report.
    Hours earlier, dozens of Israeli settlers clashed with residents of a Palestinian village near Nablus in the northern West Bank, where three Palestinians were shot and wounded by the settlers, medical officials said.
    The clashes seemed to have been triggered by the stabbing of a nine-year-old Israeli boy who was attacked by a Palestinian who infiltrated a Jewish settlement outpost and set fire to an abandoned building. The spokesman said the boy was attacked after spotting the man and calling for help.
    An Israeli hospital official said the boy was lightly wounded from stabbing in his back.
    Some 500,000 Jews live among 2.5 million Palestinians on West Bank land captured by Israel in a 1967 war, including Arab East Jerusalem.
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