Two Teens Killed by Israeli Soldiers, Palestinians Say
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NABLUS, West Bank — Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian youths here Saturday and a suspected militant near a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said.
Medics in Nablus said Israeli forces shot dead two 15-year-olds when Palestinian youths hurled rocks and firebombs at soldiers in the city’s old quarter. The Israeli army said troops fired at two armed Palestinians and hit both. An army spokeswoman said Palestinians also lobbed small bombs.
In the central Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot to death a suspected militant crawling toward the fence surrounding the Jewish settlement of Netzarim, Palestinian security sources said. The added that the Israeli army had requested that they send an ambulance for the body.
The Israeli army said its troops arrested a senior member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which has renamed itself Martyr Yasser Arafat Brigade. The army described him as a bomb maker who led the group in the West Bank city of Tulkarm.
The confrontations broke a relative lull in Israeli-Palestinian violence since Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s death due to an undisclosed illness at a French military hospital Nov. 11.
The 12-day registration period to run in an election to succeed Arafat began Saturday.
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