Three Palestinians died Monday in clashes with the security forces, the latest casualties in a new wave of violence in the territories that has claimed the lives of 11 Palestinians in the past five days.
Among the victims reported shot to death by Israeli soldiers Monday were a 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy. A third Palestinian died Monday of earlier injuries.
The teen-agers were fatally wounded as rock-throwing protests erupted during funerals for earlier victims of army action in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The victims were identified as Rafideh Khalili Ahmad Abu Laban, 13, of the Dehaishe refugee camp near Bethlehem, and Kayed Mousa Salama, 14, of the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza.
The army on Monday lifted the curfew over the village of Nahalin, site of the killing of at least four Palestinians last Thursday, during a raid on the village by border police units.
Villagers, still visibly shocked over the bloodshed, raised black flags of mourning over houses and complained to reporters that arrests in the village have continued.
In Jerusalem, a Palestinian human rights group appealed to the United Nations to launch an investigation into the Nahalin killings.
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