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GAZA, April 25 (KUNA) -- A Palestinian youth from the village of Al-Toor was killed on Saturday after being shot by Israeli soldiers at a military checkpoint east of Jerusalem.
The official Palestinian news agency (WAFA), quoting witnesses, said the soldiers had provoked the 17-year-old young man and then turned into scuffles which led to being shot directly.
It said that the Israeli authorities refused to hand over the body of the young Palestinian to the Palestinian Red Crescent as it was transferred by an Israeli ambulance to 'Abu Kabir' institute for dissection.
The Israeli police claimed that the young man tried to stab one of the soldiers at the checkpoint with a knife.(end)
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