Israeli Soldiers Kill 9-Year-Old Boy
Israeli soldiers on Tuesday shot and killed a 9-year-old Palestinian boy in Nablus as he sat on the front steps of his home eating a sandwich, relatives said. The troops were enforcing a curfew when they drove by 9-year-old Khaled Usta's home, the boy's aunt, Ferial Usta said. Youths threw stones at the troops, but the group fled when the soldiers got out of the jeep and pointed their guns at a fence just behind the boys, she said. Khaled was sitting just behind the fence eating a sandwich when one of the soldiers fired his rifle, the aunt said. [
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