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JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH.- The ongoing violent tension flared yesterday between Israel and the Palestinians, where two Palestinian young men were killed in the West Bank and two injured in the Gaza Strip, according to medics.
The Palestinian health ministry said in an e-mailed press statement that Abdul Rahman Barghouti (27), was shot dead by Israeli troops’ gunfire in the village of Aabood, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
The Israeli media, meanwhile, reported that a 20-year-old Israeli soldier was critically wounded after he was stabbed by a Palestinian young man near the settlement of Nowa Tsuf, north of Ramallah.
The reports said that other Israeli soldiers opened fire at the young man and killed him, adding that a Palestinian ambulance took the body of Barghouti, while an Israeli army force chased the ambulance to prevent it from taking the dead man.
Since early October, the Israeli army is holding around 40 bodies of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army and police in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and refuse to hand them over to the Palestinian side.
The Israeli media also reported that a Palestinian was killed after he drove a car and ran it over Israeli soldiers near the town of Sliwad north of Ramallah, adding that two soldiers were injured; one of them critically.
The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that the identity of the young man who drove the car is still unknown.
A violent wave of tension and confrontations between Israel and the Palestinians that broke out in early October has left 114 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces gunfire, including 18 young men in the Gaza Strip. – Xinhua.
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