A paid obituary in the Hartford Courant newspaper has caused an uproar. The obituary for a Palestinian woman who died in the West Bank city of Nablus had inflammatory language indicating that Israeli soldiers had deliberately killed the woman, according to hundreds of callers who contacted the Connecticut Jewish Ledger.
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