WEST BANK: 13-year-old boy, and Islamic Jihad militant killed after Israeli army forces raid West Bank village

Record ID: 561937

  • Title: WEST BANK: 13-year-old boy, and Islamic Jihad militant killed after Israeli army forces raid West Bank village
  • Date: 25th August 2007
  • Summary: (BN14) TULKARM, WEST BANK (AUGUST 24, 2007) (REUTERS) AMBULANCE ARRIVING AT HOSPITAL BODY OF BOY BEING REMOVED FROM AMBULANCE BODY OF BOY BEING WHEELED INTO HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF EXAMINING BODY OF BOY AMBULANCE ARRIVING AT HOSPITAL AND BODY OF MILITANT BEING REMOVED BODY BEING WHEELED INTO ROOM WHERE MEN MOURN OVER BODY
  • Embargoed: 9th September 2007 13:00
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  • Topics: War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVACNHMRZV6R6ZXLG2G718SCHAZL
  • Story Text: Israeli forces killed a 13-year-old Israeli Arab boy and a Palestinian gunman during a raid on Friday (August 24) in a village in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian ambulance crews said.
    An Israeli Army spokeswoman said troops entered the village of Seida, near the town of Tulkarm, and killed an armed man and wounded another in exchanges of fire.
    Asked about the death of the boy, the spokeswoman said: "We know another person was killed." She said she had no immediate information on his identity.
    Palestinian ambulance crews said the gunman in Seida belonged to the Islamic Jihad group and the boy was an Israeli Arab who was visiting relatives in the village.
    The army spokeswoman said Israeli forces found two Kalashnikov rifles, military vests and ammunition during the West Bank operation and that an Israeli paramilitary policeman was wounded and treated at the scene.
    Israel says raids against Palestinian militants help to foil attacks against its citizens. Palestinian leaders in the West Bank, where the Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas holds sway, say such operations harm chances for peacemaking.
    Israel recently granted amnesty to 178 Fatah militants in the occupied territory in a bid to boost Abbas following the violent takeover by Hamas Islamists of the Gaza Strip in June.
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