The Palestinian Authority blamed Israeli soldiers for the death of at least one of the two teen-agers killed during a violent confrontation Wednesday in the Gaza Strip between Palestinian protesters and police with the self-rule government. Israel promptly denied that its soldiers had fired at any of the protesters, who took to the streets after a Palestinian court passed a death sentence in a politically charged murder case.
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