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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Arpan Rai

Palestinian boy killed during Israeli operation in West Bank was unarmed, says family

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A 16-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead during the deadly raid by Israel’s forces in Jenin last week was unarmed and killed “for no reason”, his family members and eyewitnesses have said.

The teenage boy, Abdul Rahman Hardan, was among a dozen Palestinians and an Israeli soldier killed during the two-day raid – one of the most intense operations carried out in the occupied West Bank in the past two decades – when Israel’s security forces entered the refugee camp that it describes as a militant stronghold.

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