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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.
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.
If they want to murder Israelis via suicide bombs then this is what they get.
Because they are animals. The Israelis have shown unbelievable patience with these savages. I would see them swinging from lampposts.
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.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
Yep. This wouldn't have happened to the kid if he were sitting home reading Ivanhoe.
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-/-
Whn you act like an animal, you get treated like an animal.
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