An eight-year-old Arab boy was killed and several other civilians and Israeli soldiers were injured today as unrest continued on the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. The youngster was killed when a group of Arab youths tried to rush an army encampment in the Gaza Strip, throwing rocks, which injured four soldiers, one of them seriously.
The soldiers opened fire to disperse them. They reportedly aimed at the ground, but the child was hit and died on the way to a hospital. The ambulance summoned for him was detained by rioters who blocked the roadway and would not let it through. Army sources said 21 of the Arab rioters were injured in the melee, many of them by stones tossed by other demonstrators.
In the Marazin refugee camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, six rioters were slightly wounded when security forces sought to disperse them.
In East Jerusalem an Israeli bus passenger was slightly wounded by rocks thrown at passing vehicles by young rioters who set up a barricade of burning tires near the Lion’s Gate to the Old City. In other parts of the West Bank, security forces closed the entrances to five villages to prevent rioters from getting into the countryside to join larger disturbances.
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