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Two Palestinian teens were shot and killed by Israeli forces in the town of al-Judeira, northwest of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Friday, Anadolu reports. The ministry identified the victims as Mohammad Abdullah Taim and Mohammad Rashad Fadl Qassem, both 16, saying Israeli troops “fired a heavy barrage of live bullets at them in the upper neighborhood of al-Judeira before seizing their bodies,” according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA. The Israeli army said in a statement that “on Thursday, during an ambush conducted by Unit 636 in the al-Judeira area, two individuals were observed igniting and throwing Molotov cocktails toward a main road.” “The Israeli force neutralized the two individuals, and there […]
