Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians and wounded more than 110 others on Saturday in the Occupied Territories, in clashes that continued into the evening despite an already shaky ceasefire between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Citing unnamed medical sources, AFP reported that Israeli soldiers shot dead a 14-year-old Palestinian boy late Saturday during clashes at the Karni border crossing into Israel, east of Gaza City.
The yet-unnamed boy was the third Palestinian to be gunned down Saturday by Israeli soldiers in the furious confrontations between stone-throwing youths and Israelis in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian television broadcast a picture of the boy in the hope relatives would come forward to claim the body, AFP added.
A middle-aged Palestinian man was also killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank city of Hebron, bringing the toll for the year-long intifada or Palestinian uprising to 838, including 646 Palestinians and 169 Israelis, according to AFP's toll.
The Palestinian news agency, WAFA, reported that Ribhi Al Bayedh, 50 (52, reported Ha’aretz daily), was killed by Israeli tank fire in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Israeli tanks shelled PA areas in the city, injuring a number of Palestinians there, WAFA said.
Earlier, a Palestinian youth was shot dead at the border of the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.
18-year-old Khalil Yusef Fayad was shot in the head.
According to AFP, a total of about 112 Palestinians were wounded throughout the day, with 77 injured in the morning alone, in multiple confrontations between Israeli troops and stone-throwing youths in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Another Palestinian died of wounds he sustained last week in Rafah.
The Palestinian news agency, WAFA, said that Ahmed Mohammed, 24, was shot in the head last Thursday.
Seven Palestinians were killed and more than 70 others were wounded on Friday during clashes with the occupation troops in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The escalation in the Occupied Territories came despite an agreement Wednesday between Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to implement a ceasefire.
On Friday night, WAFA reported that three Palestinians were killed and three injured, two seriously, in a mysterious explosion in Rafah.
Palestinian security officials were quoted by the Tel Aviv-based Haaretz newspaper as saying that they were looking into the possibility that the three killed were laying an explosive to be detonated near Israeli troops.
The Israeli army said that the three were on their way to place an explosive device.
Earlier Friday evening, an Islamic Jihad activist, Yasser Al Nadhimi, 30, was killed in southern Hebron, apparently while he was preparing an explosive device, said the paper.
The circumstances of his death are still unclear, and Palestinian security forces have begun investigating the incident, it added.
Also in Hebron, Palestinians and Israeli troops reportedly exchanged fire, during which one Palestinian was killed.
According to the paper, Palestinians detonated three explosive devices near Israeli army troops in the Bethlehem area Friday.
One of the explosions took place next to the West Bank village of Khadr, in PA-controlled Area A.
The Israeli army returned fire, killing a 17-year-old Palestinian, Haaretz said, adding that a ten-year-old Palestinian boy was also killed during clashes with Israeli troops at a neighboring village.
Thousands of Palestinians demonstrated after Friday prayers in several towns in the territories, including at the Ayosh Junction, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Demonstrations also took place in Gaza and Khan Yunis, where hundreds of people chanted anti-occupation slogans.
At the Muntar Junction in Gaza, Palestinian demonstrators threw rocks at an Israeli army outpost - Albawaba.com
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