A 15-year-old Palestinian boy was killed and six people were wounded by an Israel Defense Force patrol in Nablus Friday as anti-Israel violence erupted in the administered territories on the 20th anniversary of the Six-Day War.
The victim, Azzam Al-Arandi, was killed when the patrol opened fire after coming under a hail of stones in the Nablus marketplace. An IDF spokesman said the soldiers fired into the air and Al-Arandi was hit by a stray bullet as he stood on an upper-story balcony.
His funeral later Friday became an anti-Israel demonstration. Mourners waved Palestinian flags, chanted slogans and threw stones at soldiers guarding the streets. Nablus was closed down by a commercial strike Saturday. Strikes called in Ramallah and East Jerusalem were only partly effective and attempts to organize strikes elsewhere failed.
But there were stonings and gasoline-bomb attacks throughout the territory over the weekend. An Arab was shot in the back outside the town of Kabatiya when he failed to halt at an army checkpost, a military spokesman said. He was treated at a local hospital.
Two students were wounded in their legs at Abu Dis College near Jerusalem Saturday. Soldiers opened fire when students set up barricades, raised Palestinian flags and hurled rocks. Troops used tear gas to disperse demonstrators at the Islamic College in Hebron. The college was later closed by its administration.
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