WORLD : Israelis Kill Arab Boy in Bethlehem
Israeli troops reportedly shot and killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy in Bethlehem today, and three Israeli soldiers were wounded by a roadside bomb in south Lebanon, Israel Radio said.
Arab reporters in Jerusalem said the Palestinian youth was shot in the chest while he set up a roadblock in Bethlehem.
Milad Anton Shahin was taken to East Jerusalem’s Mokassed Hospital and pronounced dead on arrival, doctors said.
His death raises the toll to 461 Palestinians and 20 Israelis killed since Arabs started rebelling in December, 1987, against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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