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Israel/Palestine

Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Thu Nov 8, 2012, 02:24 PM Nov 2012

Palestinian Teen Killed By Israeli Fire In Gaza: Medics

08 NOVEMBER 2012 - 18H26

AFP - A Palestinian teenager died on Thursday after being hit by bullets fired from an Israeli helicopter near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, a medical official told AFP.

Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, named the victim as 13-year-old Hmeid Abu Daqqa, and said he had been killed near the border.

"Thirteen-year-old Hmeid Yunes Abu Daqqa was killed by bullets fired from an Israeli helicopter during an incursion in Abasan and Al-Qarara," he said, referring to two neighbourhoods east of Khan Yunis.

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