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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, November 11th, 2014.
Israeli soldiers kill a Palestinian youth and injures two others during invasions targeting West Bank communities. These stories, and more, coming up, stay tuned.
A Palestinian youth was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on Tuesday at Al Aroup refugee camp near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Mohamed Jawabra, 21 years old, was standing at his roof top watching as local youth clashed with invading Israeli troops. A soldier shot Jawabra in his abdomen with a live round critically injuring him.
Palestinian medics moved Jawabra to Hebron city hospital were doctors tried to save him but he died of his wounds.
Elsewhere, Palestinian medical sources have reported that two teenagers were shot and wounded by Israeli army fire, in Beit Forik village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses said several military vehicles invaded the town, especially the area close to the Beit Forik School, and clashed with local youths.
The soldiers fired rounds of live ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets, and gas bombs. Two Palestinians identified as Ali Najeh Hanani, 16, and Moayyad Khatatba, 16, where shot by live round.
In other news, Israeli police kidnapped at least 58 Palestinians, including 10 children, in Kafr Kanna and Tur’an, in the Galilee, and in several other towns during overnight clashes, while the situation continues to deteriorate since the fatal shooting of Kheir Hamdan, age 22, late on Friday.
Arabs48 news website has reported that police arrested overnight 33 Palestinians, including 10 children in Kafr Kanna village, three in Tur’an village, four from Wadi ‘Ara and Um al-Fahem, and three from Tayibe.
They were taken prisoner during clashes which took place with Israeli police after they surrounded and invaded towns involved with the general strike, in protest of the murder of Hamdan.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Tuesday, November 11th, 2014, news round-up from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. For more news and updates please visit our websiteatwww.imemc.org. Today’s report has been brought to you by George Rishmawi and me Ghassan Bannoura.
