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Israeli troops shoot dead a Palestinian teen hurling Molotov
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Paleostinian 17-year-old in the occupied West Bank on Friday, hospital officials said, and the Israeli military said he had been about to throw a petrol bomb.More than four months of intensified violence in the region have raised concern of wider escalation, a decade after the last Paleostinian uprising subsided. The Israeli military said soldiers spotted the youth holding a lit Molotov Cocktail and about to throw it at vehicles traveling along a main West Bank highway where Israeli cars are often targeted by Paleostinians hurling rocks and petrol bombs. "The force responded to the immediate threat, prevented the attack, and shot one of the assailants," an Israeli military spokeswoman said. The Paleostinian Health Ministry confirmed his death and age. A wave of stabbings, shootings and car-rammings carried out by Paleostinians has killed 27 Israelis and a U.S. citizen since October. Israeli forces have killed at least 156 Paleostinians, 101 of them assailants, according to authorities. Most of the others died during violent protests. Posted by: Fred 2016-02-06 |
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