Israeli troops killed Friday a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank city of Ramallah, medics and Palestinian security sources said. According to WAFA, Hussein Awad, 17, from the Ramallah village of Betonia died after Israeli soldiers deliberately opened fire at him. He was hit with a live bullet in the head.
Security sources affirmed dozens of civilians were wounded when Israeli soldiers opened fire and gas canisters at a rally, in Betonia village, protesting the Israeli construction of the West Bank wall.
In the Gaza Strip, an aging Palestinian died Friday morning of wounds he sustained when Israeli Apache helicopter targeted Sheikh Ahmed Yassin last month, medical sources said.
Medics at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said that Mustafa Sarsoor, 63, died of shrapnel from a rocket that the Israeli helicopters fired at Sheikh Yassin on March 22. (Albawaba.com)
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