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  • L’armée israélienne accusée d’avoir tué un nouvel adolescent, Bahaa Bader 13 ans, près de Ramallah - NYTimes.com

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/world/middleeast/israeli-troops-are-suspected-in-shooting-of-a-teenager-.html?_r=0

    The Israeli military said it would immediately investigate reports that soldiers killed a 13-year-old Palestinian on Thursday night during a confrontation in a village near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

    The boy, Bahaa Sameer Mousa Bader, was shot once in the chest and died 20 minutes after arriving at the hospital, said Dr. Sameer Saliba of the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.

    An Israeli military spokeswoman said the soldiers had entered Beit Liqya, a village of 8,000 near the barrier that separates most of the West Bank from Israel, to stop people from hurling rocks at the barrier. The spokeswoman, speaking on the condition of anonymity under military protocol, said the troops had responded with live ammunition when residents threw firebombs at them as they were leaving the area.

    Ehab Bessaiso, a spokesman for the Palestinian Authority, condemned the killing “with all means,” saying in an interview that “the accumulation of incidents like this is undermining all efforts towards achieving a political solution, and in fact is contributing to instability in the region.”

    The Palestine Liberation Organization said Bahaa was the 53rd Palestinian killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem this year, including several teenagers whose deaths set off protests in the streets and outcries abroad.
    Last month, Mohamed Sinokrot, 15, was killed by what a Palestinian doctor determined in an autopsy to have been a sponge-covered police bullet that hit his head during a clash in East Jerusalem. In May, Nadeem Siam Nawara, 17, and Mohammad Mahmoud Odeh Salameh, 16, were shot during a protest on Nakba Day, which commemorates the Palestinian expulsion from the land that became Israel in 1948.

    The Israeli military has not released results of a promised investigation into the Nakba Day shootings. A Palestinian doctor said the youths had been killed by live ammunition, though soldiers supposedly did not fire any.

    “We have never seen a serious investigation by the Israeli Army into incidents like this,” Mr. Bessaiso said. Of Thursday’s fatal encounter, he added, “There would have been different alternative methods in order to prevent such a tragic incident, but I think that Israeli soldiers, they show carelessness about Palestinian lives.”

    The military spokeswoman said events unfolded between 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Israel time. (Clocks in the West Bank are currently set an hour behind Israel time.) She would not say how large a crowd the soldiers had faced in Beit Liqya, or how many had thrown stones or firebombs.

    Palestinian news and social media sites reported that firebombs had hit an army vehicle and set it aflame.

    “There was a violent riot in Beit Liqya,” the military spokeswoman said. “They responded to the threat with live fire.”

    Dr. Saliba said Bahaa arrived around 7:25 p.m. Palestinian time in critical condition, a bullet having entered his chest on the left side and exited on the right. “The heart muscle wasn’t operating,” he said. “The bleeding never stopped.”