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1st LD Writethru: 13-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead in West Bank

Xinhua, October 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Israeli army shot a 13-year-old Palestinian boy dead on Monday during clashes in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Palestinian medical sources and eye witnesses said.

Sources told Xinhua that Abed al-Rahman Mustafa was killed after Israeli army shot him in the chest during the clashes that broke out at the entrance of Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem.

The sources added that the child was transferred to the near-by Beit Jala hospital but he soon succumbed to his wounds.

No immediate response was made by the Israeli army.

The child's death raises the number of Palestinian causalities during the last three days to four, two of them in east Jerusalem. In turn, four Israelis were killed as tension escalated between the two sides.

Palestinian medical sources said that more than 450 Palestinians were wounded, mostly of suffocation, during clashes that having been flaring between the Israeli army and Palestinian protesters in the past three days.

Clashed erupted Monday noon in several locations in the West Bank, the most intense of which were at al-Arroub camp in Hebron where a Palestinian man was wounded and two others were detained.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to deploy more troops in the West Bank and Jerusalem. As he presided a ministerial security cabinet meeting, he said these steps were taken to confront the escalating confrontations with the Palestinians. Endit