A Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli gunfire in the al-Fara refugee camp south of the West Bank town of Jenin, Palestinian medical sources told AFP. Muhamad Ahmad Mubarak, 12, who came from the camp, was killed after two Israeli tanks and a number of military vehicles rumbled into the camp and began firing tear gas and live bullets at people who were throwing stones, the sources said Saturday.
Meanwhile, mystery surrounded the fate of 15 Palestinians that Israel said were holed up inside the Palestinian municipal and security headquarters in Hebron.
Two controlled explosions ended a four-day siege on the building and left mounds of smoldering rubble where the four-story building had stood on a hilltop overlooking Hebron.
Israeli soldiers moved through the debris Saturday looking for bodies, but as of Saturday night, had found only weapons and ammunition, military sources said. About a dozen soldiers walked through the rubble and guarded the site, while a pair of bulldozers tore down the few remaining walls that survived the explosions.
More than 100 Palestinians came out of the building during the siege, many of them police officers. The Israeli army said that about 15 wanted Palestinians were still inside as of Friday. Palestinians inside last fired on army positions early Friday morning, but then the shooting stopped, the army said.
The Israeli army has not ruled out the possibility that some of the wanted men that had been in the compound managed to escape before the building was demolished and that some had been killed. (Albawaba.com)
