Palestinian Wounded in PLO Flag Incident
From Reuters
TEL AVIV —
Israeli troops shot and wounded a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Saturday after he refused to take down a Palestine Liberation Organization flag and then tried to run away, an army spokesman said.
He said the Palestinian, from the Balata refugee camp, was taken to a hospital in the nearby city of Nablus with a leg wound. Palestinian sources identified him as Mohammed Khaled Shubash, 23, a Balata shopowner.
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