WEST BANK: Hundreds attend funeral of Palestinian youth shot dead by Israeli troops in Bethlehem

Several hundred people marched in a funeral procession on Wednesday (September 13) for a Palestinian youth shot dead by Israeli troops during an arrest raid into the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday (September 12). As women watched from rooftops, mourners carried the body of the teenager to the family home where his mother said her final goodbye before his burial. The Israeli troops shot and killed the youth as they confronted protesters during a raid to arrest a wanted militant in the West Bank city, medics and witnesses said. The soldiers opened fire after protesters at the site near Manger Square, the site of Jesus's birth in Bethlehem, threw stones, firebombs and grenades, injuring two of the troops, a military spokesman said. The violence erupted when troops surrounded a house where they later arrested a wanted militant of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a group linked to the mainstream Fatah faction, according to witnesses and Israeli military sources. Medics said that five other people were wounded.

ITN Source | September 13, 2006

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