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    Palestinian shot dead near Ramallah after stabbing Israeli
    Dec. 4, 2015 2:07 P.M. (Updated: Dec. 4, 2015 2:24 P.M.)
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    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian man was shot and killed on Friday after stabbing an Israeli near the Ramallah-area village of Abud, Palestinian officials said.

    The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health confirmed that a Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli military forces near the village, which is located adjacent to the illegal Israeli settlement of Halamish.

    The man was identified as Abed al-Rahman al-Barghouthi , 27. He died from gunshot wounds to the neck and arm, the ministry added.

    Israel’s military said an “Israeli was stabbed and wounded northwest of Ramallah” and the assailant was shot at the scene.

    Reports in Israeli media said the Israeli was a soldier, although their identity has not yet been confirmed.

    The Magen David Adom ambulance service said the Israeli was in a moderate to serious condition.

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      Thousands join funeral of slain Palestinian in Ramallah-area village
      Dec. 5, 2015 5:36 P.M. (Updated: Dec. 5, 2015 5:41 P.M.)
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      RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral of 26-year-old Abed al-Rahman Barghouthi on Friday, a day after he was shot dead by Israeli forces outside the village of Abud northwest of Ramallah.

      An official military procession, led by officers of the Palestinian National Forces, carried Barghouthi’s body from the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah to Abud, where he was laid to rest in the village ceremony following funeral prayers in the local mosque.

      Barghouthi’s body was wrapped in a Palestinian flag and carried on mourners’ shoulders, a Ma’an reporter said.

      Israel alleges that Barghouthi was attempting to attack an Israeli soldier when he was shot, but witnesses and relatives have insisted he was shot dead “in cold blood,” and did not pose any threat at the time.

      “The Israeli occupation forces executed my nephew in cold blood after they stopped him at a checkpoint near the main entrance to the village,” Barghouthi’s uncle, Husni, told Ma’an during the funeral procession.

      He said that Israeli soldiers had asked Abed al-Rahman to show them his identity card, and afterward fired six rounds at his neck and head. Husni said the soldiers “planted a knife near the body of his nephew after they shot him dead so as to justify their crime.”

      Following the funeral, clashes quickly erupted between local youths and Israeli forces stationed near the main entrance to Abud, which was sealed with mounds of earth on Friday evening after Barghouthi was shot dead.

      Barghouthi was reportedly a US citizen who had recently arrived in the occupied West Bank for his marriage.

      Village residents told Ma’an on Friday that he was walking home from his fiance’s house when he was killed.

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