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April 4, 2018

Gaza: Palestinian Man Shot Dead by Israeli Troops Near Border Wall
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In the Gaza Strip, Israeli police shot and killed a young Palestinian
man Tuesday, in the 19th such killing in less than a week.
Twenty-five-year-old Ahmad Arafa bled to death after he was shot in the
stomach near the border wall separating Gaza from Israel in the city of
Khan Younis. Israel's military said Arafa had breached the border, and
labeled him a "terrorist." His father, Omar Arafa, said otherwise.

Omar Arafa: "He was next to me. He went to the wall like everyone else.
He was near me. They shot him with a bullet from a silencer. He was far
from the wall."

The latest killing followed a massacre last Friday, which saw Israeli
forces open fire on a protest near the Gaza Strip's eastern border with
Israel-killing at least 18 Palestinians and wounding as many as 1,700
others. The massacre set off protests across the Middle East and
worldwide. In Boston, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, eight young Jewish
Americans were arrested outside the Israeli Consulate as they locked
themselves together in a nonviolent protest.


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