An Arab university released photographs and eyewitness...
An Arab university released photographs and eyewitness testimony that disputed the Israeli army’s claim that its soldiers fired in self-defense during a demonstration in which an Arab student was killed. The 24-page report by Birzeit University, entitled “No Mercy,” said the soldiers fired telescopic rifles to break up a Nov. 21 demonstration in the Israeli-occupied West Bank supporting Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat. An Israeli military source denied the report’s charge that the soldiers fired without warning.
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