"Israelis" kill three Palestinian youth in three days

Source: Presstv, 17-10-2008
"Israeli" troops have shot dead a third Palestinian man in three days, this time in the West Bank village of Kufr Malilk near Ramallah.
Palestinians identified the dead man as 21-year-old Aziz Youssef. The "Israeli" army said its soldiers entered the village on Thursday, spotted two Palestinians holding firebombs and shot one of them.
Also before dawn Thursday, "Israeli" troops raided the Palestinian village of Qabatiya, near Jenin in the northern West Bank, and arrested four Islamic Jihad militants, a military spokeswoman said.
She said that during the raid the soldiers found and detonated two roadside bombs weighing about 20 kilograms each.
The "Israeli" army claimed that the men killed were holding and about to throw firebombs when they were shot.
A senior Palestinian official in Ramallah, Saeb Erekat, condemned "Israel"'s military actions as "absolutely unacceptable and uncalled for" and said they were undermining Palestinian efforts to preserve the peace process and maintain calm.
Erekat said that although the "Israeli" war minister, Ehud Barak, has expressed an interest in extending the six-month truce in Gaza that is due to expire in December, he was "not even prepared to discuss" a truce in the West Bank.
Another Palestinian, Muhammad Ramahi, 21, died from wounds sustained in a clash with "Israeli" troops at the Jalazoun refugee camp that abuts Ramallah on Wednesday. That confrontation followed the funeral of a Palestinian teenager, Abdel Qader Zeid, 17, also from Jalazoun, who was shot and killed Tuesday outside an "Israeli" settlement.
The military said that "Israeli" forces shot the youth after laying in ambush, and said he was holding a lighted gasoline bomb at the time. Ten more gasoline bombs were found in the area, the military alleged.