Arab Reported Killed by Army on West Bank

Troops raiding a West Bank village shot and killed a 25-year-old Palestinian on Tuesday, and 19 other Palestinians were wounded by army gunfire in other clashes in the occupied lands, Arab hospital officials said.

During an army raid on the village of Abwein, troops clashed with stone-throwing villagers and opened fire, an army official said. Later, the army received reports from nearby Ramallah Hospital that villager Mohammed Khalil had died of gunshot wounds, he said. The army was unable to confirm the cause of death because relatives took the body from the hospital, the official said.

Regarding the wounded, the army confirmed only a total of 10.

The heaviest clashes occurred in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, according to Arab witnesses and officials at two Arab hospitals in Gaza City. After the shooting of two teen-agers by troops earlier in the day, hundreds of residents poured into the camp’s narrow alleys. Soldiers responded with tear gas, rubber bullets and then plastic bullets, and six more youths were wounded, the witnesses said.

In Jerusalem’s crowded business and shopping district, a small bomb exploded in a garbage can, and a police spokesman labeled the incident “definitely a terrorist attack.” There were no injuries or damages.

The trash can, reinforced with steel lining, was one of several introduced in downtown Jerusalem in recent months to withstand bomb blasts. For several years, Jerusalem had no public trash cans because they were frequently used to plant bombs.