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Palestinians say 17-year-old shot dead by IDF troops in West Bank
By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent, and Reuters
Tags: Na'alin, West Bank 

Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid into the West Bank on Friday, local residents and medical workers said.

The residents said the 17-year-old was killed while confronting IDF troops who raided the village of Beit Umar, near the West Bank city of Hebron.

The military said that soldiers entered Beit Umar shortly before midnight Friday, in an operation to stop fire bomb attacks on Israeli vehicles on a nearby highway. The troops shot a militant who threw two molotov cocktails at them, a military spokesman said.
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Palestinians said the shots killed Mohammed Alameh, 17, one of a group of youths who fought the soldiers.

An IDF spokesman said he was looking into the incident, which could further disrupt a shaky ceasefire agreement between Israel and militant groups in the Gaza Strip.

The West Bank is not covered by a nine-day old truce between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip but on Tuesday, after troops in the West Bank city of Nablus killed two Palestinians, one of them an Islamic Jihad commander, Islamic Jihad in Gaza fired three rockets into Israel in response.

There was no indication that Alameh was formally a member of a militant group and no immediate sign of retaliation from Gaza Saturday morning.

14 protesters hurt in anti-fence demonstration
Fourteen protesters demonstrating against the separation fence were wounded in the West Bank village of Na'alin on Thursday.

An IDF soldier and a Border Police officer were also lightly hurt from stones thrown by protesters, 200 of whom were demonstrating against the route of the fence, which cuts off some of the village's residents from their lands.

The wounded protesters were hurt by the anti-riot tactics employed by the IDF and Border Police to disperse the demonstrators. Members of Anarchists against the Wall said that security forces opened fire after stones were thrown.

Protest activity against the fence in Na'alin has been on the rise in recent weeks. Demonstrators say that the separation fence effectively annexes thousands of dunams of Palestinian land to the settlement of Hashmonaim.

Roughly two weeks ago, a nine-year-old was wounded when security forces fired a rubber bullet that hit him in his head. Six additional demonstrators and Border Police officer were also hurt.

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      1.   Why wasnt the fence re-routed?? 15:33  |  Free Gilad Shalit 26/06/08
      2.   #1, free gilad shalit... 16:42  |  Silvienne 26/06/08
      3.   It`s already been done 17:25  |  wibism 26/06/08
      4.   Silvene, the supporter of terror 18:36  |  JP 26/06/08
      5.   #4 JP-"security fence" not for security reasons 19:08  |  Frank 26/06/08
      6.   to Frank #5 19:50  |  JP 26/06/08
      7.   Why wasn`t the wall built on the green line? 20:05  |  Maki 26/06/08
      8.   the wall is only partly a securitytool 21:06  |  rm 26/06/08
      9.   So what? We will grab back Jewish land stolen by Arabs 22:12  |  Genuine Tosefta 26/06/08
      10.   People Are Upset because Salvation fence stopped Terrorist! 22:18  |  Baruch Gold 26/06/08
      11.   Security fence = best thing since sliced bread -and waterboarding 22:22  |  Denise Thompson 26/06/08
      12.   #7, Maki...and how they love to make excuses about it!! 22:42  |  Silvienne 26/06/08
      13.   12- Silivienne, Israel doesn´t need to excuse anything 00:05  |  JP 27/06/08
      14.   Denise Thompson 00:55  |  wibism 27/06/08
      15.   #2 Silvinne - Don`t concern yourself 01:56  |  * BEN JABO 27/06/08
      16.   #7 Maki - The Palestinians` didn`t accept the Greenline 01:58  |  * BEN JABO 27/06/08
      17.   #14 Wibism - You`re not too well yourself 02:00  |  * BEN JABO 27/06/08
      18.   #12 Silvienne - You`re altering the facts again 02:04  |  * BEN JABO 27/06/08
      19.   # 2 Silvienne...throwing stones at cops 02:47  |  Lynn 27/06/08
      20.   BEN JABO #16 - Very weak arguement 03:28  |  Maki 27/06/08
      21.   demonstration 05:38  |  colin 27/06/08
      22.   #20 Maki - It`s not an argument, it`s fact 06:23  |  * BEN JABO 27/06/08
      23.   to BEN JABO, JP and the rest 13:29  |  Frank 27/06/08
      24.   #23 Frank - Easy answer $$$$ 15:05  |  * BEN JABO 27/06/08
      25.   BEN JABO, #20 , #24. More weak arguments 20:06  |  Maki 27/06/08
      26.   #18, Ben Jabo... 00:26  |  Silvienne 28/06/08
      27.   #24, Ben Jabo... 00:30  |  Silvienne 28/06/08
      28.   #25, Maki... 00:32  |  Silvienne 28/06/08
      29.   #26 Silvienne - Let me explain it to you 06:50  |  * BEN JABO 28/06/08
      30.   #27 Silvienne - Don`t be surprised 06:52  |  * BEN JABO 28/06/08
      31.   #28 Silvienne 06:55  |  * BEN JABO 28/06/08
      32.   3300 years ago Jews owned Israel 1300 years ago islam came 11:44  |  Johnny 28/06/08
      33.   Protest Hamas, Fatah, Islam 11:47  |  Absolute Israel 28/06/08
      34.   Apologists of terror - how does it feel to not achieve anything? 11:53  |  Johnny 28/06/08
      35.   Sadly youth does not make one immune if one chooses weapons 12:53  |  Jo 28/06/08
      36.   #25,Maki 14:07  |  Ronald 28/06/08
      37.   Does his age matter? 14:42  |  redmike 28/06/08
      38.   Silvienne,Dutch and friends there is nothing new about the idf 15:07  |  lakshmi 28/06/08
      39.   Silvienne - I support fence 100% 18:18  |  Free Gilad Shalit 28/06/08
      40.   17 yr old teenager was a terrorist 18:28  |  Free Gilad Shalit 28/06/08
      41.   Ha`aretz fails to mention 1st attack in West Bank 18:37  |  Free Gilad Shalit 28/06/08
      42.   1# 20:14  |  Keops 28/06/08
      43.   BEN JABO does not have an answer 20:25  |  Frank 28/06/08
      44.   TO BEN" JUMBO" 20:34  |  sami 28/06/08
      45.   STILL BRINGING STONES TO GUN FIGHTS? 20:34  |  how stupid 28/06/08
      46.   Silvienne # 26,, # 28. 20:53  |  Maki 28/06/08
      47.   demands 22:19  |  poopa alameh 28/06/08
      48.   Frank the security wall is for stay and point 22:24  |  JP 28/06/08
      49.   Silvienne #26 23:05  |  Maki 28/06/08
      50.   Silvienne 23:30  |  Hilda 28/06/08
      51.   Free Gilad Shalit Its both 23:31  |  Conversations 28/06/08
      52.   Apartheid & Israel 23:32  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 28/06/08
      53.   Silvienne # 2 _ The Israeli Justice System Is Probably The 00:30  |  Eli 29/06/08
      54.   Wild Imaginations 00:46  |  Schtarker Yid 29/06/08
      55.   # 9 gt 02:04  |  Axel 29/06/08
      56.   Silvienne the lying Simpleton; PUT UP OR SHUT UP 05:55  |  Murray the Mongoose 29/06/08
      57.   #31, Ben Jabo... 07:03  |  Silvienne 29/06/08
      58.   #43, Maki...it seems we agree on this... 07:07  |  Silvienne 29/06/08
      59.   #33, Ronald... 07:11  |  Silvienne 29/06/08
      60.   #47, Hilda...now, there`s an odd thing for you to say... 07:13  |  Silvienne 29/06/08
      61.   #50, Eli in Berkeley... 07:16  |  Silvienne 29/06/08
      62.   #35, lakshmi...that`s interesting... 07:20  |  Silvienne 29/06/08
      63.   #36, Free Gilad Shalit....the Wall/fence 07:25  |  Silvienne 29/06/08
      64.   Ronald 08:08  |  Maki 29/06/08
      65.   More disgraceful & unnecesssary killing of Palestinians by IDF 09:22  |  Dutch 29/06/08
      66.   #25 3RD TRY Maki - No arguments involved 18:02  |  * BEN JABO 29/06/08
      67.   #43 Frank - The reason is 18:05  |  * BEN JABO 29/06/08
      68.   #44 Sami - El Shmucko 18:07  |  * BEN JABO 29/06/08
      69.   #63 Silvienne - Oh well, here we go again 18:15  |  * BEN JABO 29/06/08
      70.   #57 Silvienne - I`ll take it one at a time 18:22  |  * BEN JABO 29/06/08
      71.   To Maki, whose first language is not English... 19:30