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Police say Palestinians likely killers of teenager
- Palestinian security forces handed over to Israel on Tuesday the bullet-riddled body of an Israeli teenager who Israeli police believe was killed by Palestinians in the West Bank.
- Palestinian security forces handed over to Israel on Tuesday the bullet-riddled body of an Israeli teenager who Israeli police believe was killed by Palestinians in the West Bank.
They said the 18-year-old, from the settlement of Pisgat Zeev, which Israel regards as a neighborhood of Jerusalem, may have been kidnapped on Monday night after visiting a friend and taken to the nearby West Bank town of Ramallah.
Police spokesman Rafi Yaffe said the youth's body, which also bore stab wounds, was handed over by Palestinian security officials.
Members of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, shouting through loudspeakers at a funeral in Gaza, said the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a group affiliated to Fatah, was behind the killing of a settler in Ramallah. Israeli radio stations said the victim's family had identified the body.
Elsewhere in Gaza, Palestinian witnesses said Israeli soldiers shot an 11-year-old Palestinian boy in the chest, wounding him, during a clash between stone-throwing youths and Israeli troops at Rafah on the border with Egypt.
The Israeli army said 15 grenades had been hurled at an army outpost near Rafah during a day of unrest at the border.
Late on Tuesday, Israel troops and Palestinian gunmen traded fire north of the West Bank city of Ramallah, the army said. No injuries were reported. The latest violence overshadowed fresh international efforts to secure an end to the bloodshed that followed a Palestinian uprising 10 months ago after peace talks stalled.
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who met Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on Tuesday, said he was eager for a cooling off period to begin, as called for in the peace plan devised by a committee headed by former U.S. senator George Mitchell.
Bureau Report
Police spokesman Rafi Yaffe said the youth's body, which also bore stab wounds, was handed over by Palestinian security officials.
Members of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, shouting through loudspeakers at a funeral in Gaza, said the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a group affiliated to Fatah, was behind the killing of a settler in Ramallah. Israeli radio stations said the victim's family had identified the body.
Elsewhere in Gaza, Palestinian witnesses said Israeli soldiers shot an 11-year-old Palestinian boy in the chest, wounding him, during a clash between stone-throwing youths and Israeli troops at Rafah on the border with Egypt.
The Israeli army said 15 grenades had been hurled at an army outpost near Rafah during a day of unrest at the border.
Late on Tuesday, Israel troops and Palestinian gunmen traded fire north of the West Bank city of Ramallah, the army said. No injuries were reported. The latest violence overshadowed fresh international efforts to secure an end to the bloodshed that followed a Palestinian uprising 10 months ago after peace talks stalled.
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who met Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on Tuesday, said he was eager for a cooling off period to begin, as called for in the peace plan devised by a committee headed by former U.S. senator George Mitchell.
Bureau Report