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Palestinian Teenager Shot After Defying Curfew
VOA News ^ | 10/5/02 | Sonja Pace

Posted on 10/05/2002 7:34:55 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by Israeli troops Saturday, near the West Bank city of Nablus and several other Palestinians are reported injured.

Palestinian witnesses and medical workers say the teenager was shot when he and a group of boys defied the military curfew and threw stones at Israeli soldiers. The incident occurred at a refugee camp near Nablus. Witnesses say they also heard gunfire from the center of the city.

It's the second shooting death of a Palestinian teenager in the past two days. On Friday, a Palestinian youth was killed under similar circumstances in a village in the northern West Bank, and earlier Friday, another Palestinian youngster was critically wounded by Israeli tank fire near Nablus.

These are the latest incidents in almost daily deadly violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

Nablus and most other West Bank cities have been under an almost continuous curfew for over three months - ever since Israel re-occupied much of the West Bank, in response to a spate of suicide bombings by Palestinian militants inside Israel.

Palestinians in many cities routinely defy the curfew when there are no Israeli soldiers around. They also say that, often, patrolling Israeli troops simply ignore the defiance. But, there have also been clashes, mostly between soldiers and young Palestinian stone throwers.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: israel; palestine; shooting; westbank
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1 posted on 10/05/2002 7:34:55 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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2 posted on 10/05/2002 7:35:14 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
What part of 'curfew' don't they understand?
3 posted on 10/05/2002 7:36:18 AM PDT by piasa
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
This is what happens when you bring a rock to a gunfight.
4 posted on 10/05/2002 7:40:51 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity; piasa
Israel fires back.
6 posted on 10/05/2002 7:49:49 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: spongebob58
Oh geez I can't believe you used Spongebob to spout crap. Thats just evil.
7 posted on 10/05/2002 7:52:00 AM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Palestinian witnesses and medical workers say the teenager was shot when he and a group of boys defied the military curfew and threw stones at Israeli soldiers.

I swear. There must be something in the water. These people are morons. You throw rocks. They have guns. It doesn't take Dr. John Nash to figure out what happens next.

8 posted on 10/05/2002 7:52:56 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo
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To: spongebob58
Maybe it's the part about being made to live like caged animals, 24/7, in their own city.

Looks like the cage idea works. The better the lockdown, the less Israelis they get to kill. Screw 'em. They brought this on themselves and on a certain level like this stuff. A dominance and submission kind of thing. If these losers want to follow Arafat and Hamas then this is the result.

If they want to murder Israelis via suicide bombs then this is what they get.

9 posted on 10/05/2002 7:57:20 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: spongebob58
Maybe it's the part about being made to live like caged animals, 24/7, in their own city.

Because they are animals. The Israelis have shown unbelievable patience with these savages. I would see them swinging from lampposts.

10 posted on 10/05/2002 7:58:52 AM PDT by 10mm
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11 posted on 10/05/2002 8:04:36 AM PDT by Cachelot
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To: spongebob58
They were given half of Israel, but they chose murder, bombs and death.
It is apparently their terroristic way.

It DOES fool the UN and EU, but not many here.

BTW, "people" who drive virus ridden screws into innocents deserve more justice than being simply "locked up".

I am sure you agree, spongebob58.

12 posted on 10/05/2002 8:06:37 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
This is Allah's will...
13 posted on 10/05/2002 8:07:17 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: spongebob58
Maybe they should think twice before throwing their whole-hearted support behind leaders that send out kids to perform acts of random mass-murder against civilians in shopping malls and pizza restaurants.

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

15 posted on 10/05/2002 8:26:26 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: Rufus B. Washington
When you go looking for trouble, you are apt to find it.

Yep. This wouldn't have happened to the kid if he were sitting home reading Ivanhoe.

16 posted on 10/05/2002 8:33:18 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: spongebob58
Maybe it's the part about being made to live like caged animals, 24/7, in their own city.

That would indeed be an atrocity, had the shot kid been in his own Arab city of Cairo or Amman. But since the foreign Arabs in Israel chose to accomodate terrorists and terrorism in the enclaves granted to the *Palestinians* when no other Arab country would accept them, it's hardly surprising that the Israelis have had to deal with them in the same manner pioneered by King Hussein of Jordan in September of 1970.

-archy-/-

17 posted on 10/05/2002 9:05:49 AM PDT by archy
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To: archy
They tried to kill the King and his son in Jordan. What gracious guests they are!
18 posted on 10/05/2002 9:11:16 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: spongebob58
Maybe it's the part about being made to live like caged animals, 24/7, in their own city.

Whn you act like an animal, you get treated like an animal.

19 posted on 10/05/2002 9:20:20 AM PDT by TheBattman
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Why Palestinians Throw Rocks ^
20 posted on 10/05/2002 10:23:33 AM PDT by GirlShortstop
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