4 West Bank Youths Wounded Protesting Palestine Partition
Israeli troops shot and wounded at least four Palestinian youths Sunday during protests to mark the 40th anniversary of a U.N. resolution calling for the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.
An army spokesman said two masked protesters were shot in the leg at the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, where dozens of teen-agers hurled stones, burned tires and raised outlawed Palestinian flags.
Another demonstrator, an 18-year-old Palestinian armed with a spiked iron rod, was shot and slightly wounded in the leg when he ignored army orders to halt outside the Balata camp near Nablus, the spokesman said.
The army clamped a curfew on Balata, where shopkeepers closed their stores to protest against the U.N. plan, adopted on Nov. 29, 1947.
In the occupied Gaza Strip, soldiers shot a Palestinian youth in the leg in Rafah on the Egyptian border, state radio said. The army said two gasoline bombs were thrown at troops in the town.
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