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Israeli Soldiers Kill 2 Palestinians with Same Name
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GAZA (Reuters) -
Israeli troops shot and killed a
Palestinian grocer and a teenage student -- both carrying the
same name -- in separate incidents in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip (news - web sites) Monday.
The deaths came a day after Israeli forces raided two Gaza
refugee camps, killing 14 Palestinians including three boys, a
civilian adult and 10 gunmen.
Palestinian security sources said Khaled Madi, 16, was
helping his father in the family fields in southern Gaza during
a school holiday when Israeli soldiers opened fire on them
killing the boy. Medics said Madi was shot in the head.
Israeli military sources confirmed that soldiers on patrol
near the Morag settlement in southern Gaza fired "warning
shots" and said they were checking if anyone had been hit.
Later Monday, Israeli undercover soldiers shot dead a
30-year-old Palestinian grocer in the West Bank town of Salfit
while trying to arrest a man suspected of being a member of a
militant group linked to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s
Fatah (news - web sites) movement.
Medics said the grocer, also named Khaled Madi, was one of
three people wounded in the incident, including the suspected
militant, and that he died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen
while on the way to hospital.
An Israeli military source said soldiers opened fire when
the wanted man tried to flee arrest, wounding him and then
taking him into custody. Reports of other casualties were being
checked, the source said.
Violence has escalated in the Gaza Strip since Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) announced a unilateral plan last
month to evacuate Jewish settlers from the coastal region if a
U.S.-backed peace road map fails.
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