IOF Assassinate Palestinian Activist, Wound 16 Teenagers in Nablus

[vierundzwanzig]

24/08/2003


Palestine Media Center- (PMC)

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) opened fire on Saturday at hundreds of Palestinian protesters in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, injuring at least sixteen, mostly teenagers, only a day after a new extra-judicial assassination of a Palestinian activist in the city.

Two of the wounded were hit in the legs by live bullets and one was wounded in the hand by shrapnel, hospital officials said.

The IOF said soldiers fired rubber bullets after dozens of Palestinians as young as 11 years old began throwing stones at them.

Some 200 teenagers remained in the streets hurling stones at soldiers and tanks despite a curfew, witnesses said.

Earlier on Friday, IOF troops shot and killed a Palestinian activist in Nablus and wounded two others, in a new extra-judicial assassination.

Eyewitnesses said that IOF soldiers stormed Rafidia hospital in the city, opening fire at the people there, killing Khaled al Namroty. IOF kidnapped one of the wounded and led him into an unknown place.

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