Jerusalem teenager shot dead
NZPA-Reuter Jerusalem Arab protest violence has flared after Israeli gunfire killed a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem for the first time since an anti-Israeii uprising began more than seven months ago. The Arab teenager was shot in an incident that touched off clashes in which a policeman in Jerusalem’s walled old city was critically wounded.
Eyewitnesses said four Israeli soldiers and two armed Jewish settlers left an Israeli bus on Tuesday when it was stoned near Beit Hanina, a town just outside Jerusalem, but it w.as unclear who fired the fatal shot.
Neither the army nor the police would investigate the killing of Faoud Rabadi, aged 16, as they bickered about who had jurisdiction over the Beit Hanina area.
Beit Hanina is officially part of greater municipal Jerusalem, but the police said it was outside their district, and they believed soldiers were involved in the killing. Police patrol East Jerusalem, annexed by Israel after its capture in the 1967 Middie-East War, but the Army maintains control over the West Bank and Gaza Strip,
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