An 11-year-old Palestinian boy, Samr Arar, was killed by IDF gunfire in the West Bank village of Krawat Ani Zeid, east of Qalqilyah, on Monday evening. Palestinian sources said that Arar was killed in an exchange of fire in the village between IDF troops and Palestinians.
Arar was hit in the head when soldiers fired live rounds to try to disperse a crowd of stone throwers in a village near the West Bank city of Ramallah, witnesses said.
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Five unarmed civilians have been killed in Krawat Ani Zeid over the course of the past month.
IDF troops shot at a convoy of diplomatic vehicles at a military roadblock in the Gaza Strip on Monday, twice hitting the windscreen of one of the cars but causing no injuries, diplomatic sources said.
The diplomats were badly shaken by the incident as the small convoy was stopped leaving the town of Beit Hanun in northern Gaza, close to the main Erez crossing with Israel, the sources said.
They said the convoy included representatives of Switzerland, Britain, Greece, Sweden, and Austria.
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Also Monday, a Palestinian woman carrying a knife and suspected of planning to stab a soldier was arrested at the Taibeh roadblock along the Green Line border. No injuries were reported in the incident.
An investigation into the woman's background revealed her sister was shot and moderately wounded by IDF troops six months ago when she attempted to stab a soldier at the same roadblock.
Haaretz 27/05/2003
