WEST BANK: Mourners in the occupied West Bank attend funeral of a Palestinian boy shot said to have been shot dead by Israeli troops

Record ID: 564804

  • Title: WEST BANK: Mourners in the occupied West Bank attend funeral of a Palestinian boy shot said to have been shot dead by Israeli troops
  • Date: 8th December 2013
  • Summary: AL-JALAZOUN REFUGEE CAMP , WEST BANK (DECEMBER 08, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS CARRYING BODY OF 15 YEAR OLD BOY IN FUNERAL PROCESSION VARIOUS OF GUNMEN AT FUNERAL PEOPLE MARCHING IN FUNERAL PROCESSION VARIOUS OF HEAVY GUNFIRE BY PALESTINIAN MILITANTS PEOPLE AT FUNERAL VARIOUS OF WOMEN CHANTING DURING FUNERAL PALESTINIANS CARRYING BODY OF WAJIH WAJDI AL-RAMAHY VARIOUS OF FUNERAL PROCESSION
  • Embargoed: 23rd December 2013 12:00
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  • Location: West bank
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: Conflict,International Relations,Politics,People
  • Reuters ID: LVA4PAV9RLNV87ZR2KXE9VFDNGCS
  • Story Text: Palestinian mourners marched through the streets of Al-Jalazoun refugee camp on Sunday (December 08), in the funeral of a 15-year-old Palestinian boy who died of a gunshot wound in the occupied West Bank on Saturday.
    His father and two of the boy's friends blamed Israeli troops guarding a nearby settlement for the shooting.
    An Israeli military spokeswoman said a military police investigation had been opened but she did not have any more details.
    A dozen masked men fired bullets in the air as the funeral procession passed through the camp.
    Doctors at the Ramallah hospital said Wajih Wajdi Al-Ramahy died of a single gunshot wound. His father, Wajdi, said Israeli soldiers had shot him without being provoked.
    Wajdi from the Jalazoun refugee camp near the town of Ramallah, said his son had left a grocery store when he was shot from a nearby settlement, about 300 metres away.
    There was no unrest in the area when the shooting occurred, the dead boy's father said.
    Seventeen Palestinians and four Israelis have been killed since U.S.-brokered talks began in July.
    Palestinian officials say the sides remain far apart on the central issues of borders, security, Jerusalem's status and Palestinian refugees.
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