RAMALLAH, West Bank: A Palestinian youth died yesterday at a West Bank hospital following a clash with Israeli troops near Ramallah, Palestinian hospital
officials said.
The confrontation was one of three in a matter of hours on Friday in which Palestinians died in Israeli-Palestinian violence, making it one of the tensest days in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip in recent months.
Israeli soldiers fired at the Palestinian after he threw a fire-bomb at them, the military said.
Earlier on Friday, an 18-month-old Palestinian boy was killed in a house fire in the West Bank village of Duma near Nablus that was set by suspected Jewish assailants. His parents and a sibling are in critical condition in Israeli hospitals, officials said.
In the Gaza Strip the same day, Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the border fence.
Israeli troops yesterday used riot dispersal means to break up a stone-throwing clash in the West Bank between Israeli settlers and Palestinians and there were a number of other protests where Palestinians and Israeli Arabs demonstrated. REUTERS
