Soldiers kill Palestinian with bullet in head

Israeli soldiers this morning shot and killed a Palestinian man in the northern West Bank village of Silat al-Dahar near Nablus…

Israeli soldiers this morning shot and killed a Palestinian man in the northern West Bank village of Silat al-Dahar near Nablus.

Mr Abdel Hamid Khanfar (28) is said to have been standing with a group of Palestinians throwing stones at Israeli soldiers when he was shot in the head.

A militant from Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, died yesterday from injuries sustained when he set off a bomb in northern Israel which injured 19 other people on January 1st. AFP

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