A 15-year-old Palestinian boy has been killed and several others injured near Gaza's border with Israel after Israeli troops opened fire at Israeli Arabs and Palestinians protesters marking the "Land day".

Witnesses said Mohamed al-Farmawi was shot dead on Tuesday after he approached the fence along the border with Israel.

Gaza emergency chief Moaweya Hassanein told reporters that medical teams and International Red Cross Committee (ICRC) co-ordinated with the Israeli army to collect the boy's body.

Israeli army, however, denied that troops had shot dead the Palestinian boy.

An Israeli army spokesperson said: "Following an examination of the Gaza division, we are not familiar with any incident of a Palestinian being hit by IDF (Israeli military) fire."

Many Palestinian teens approach the border areas between Israel and the Gaza Strip either to cross and look for a job inside Israel, or search for junk to sell in Gaza.

No source? Sounds like it may have come from Al Arabiya or Al Jazeera ...

it came from BBC. i will provide the link if you don't know how to use google.

And BBC, like the good little Statist propagandists and Muzziephiles they are, probably sourced it from the ones I mentioned.

An official from the Hamas-run ministry of health said the teenager "was left bleeding for hours" before paramedics were able to get Israeli permission to evacuate him.

However, there has been speculation over whether the boy could have died in an intra-Palestinian dispute.

The Maan news service quoted unnamed Palestinian sources who said the boy's death "may have been an internal matter", without giving further details.


This is in the BBC article.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8594707.stm

It's a copyright violation if you don't post the source.

I am also not going to lose any sleep over this.

In the real world Al Jazeera is far more respected than Fox news. By real world I imply people who are more sophisticated than a 15 year old.

In the real world - there is accurate reporting. Sometimes.

"Palestinian teen reportedly killed by IDF returns home"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3871373,00.html

Oh I agree sometimes they are accurate.

Israel yesterday threatened to launch a second military offensive in Gaza, just hours after its jets and helicopters pounded the coastal enclave in response to the firing of a Qassam rocket by militants in the strip.


The Israeli military said it had successfully hit four targets across Gaza in the early hours of yesterday morning – two weapons-manufacturing plants and two arms caches.

Eyewitnesses in Gaza said there were at least seven strikes, and a cheese factory, a film studio and metal workshop in the central refugee camp of Nuseirat had been hit. Hospital officials said three Palestinian children had been injured after being hit by flying debris.

The Qassam rocket, which prompted the aerial strikes, was fired from Gaza into Israel on Thursday. It caused no damage and no Palestinian faction has claimed responsibility.

"If this rocket fire against Israel does not stop, it seems we will have to raise the level of our activity and step up our actions against Hamas," Silvan Shalom, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister, told public radio."We won't allow frightened children to again be raised in bomb shelters and so, in the end, it will force us to launch another military operation."

Yesterday's Israeli aerial strikes mark the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's most significant military incursion in Gaza since the devastating offensive in December 2008, which lasted 22 days and killed 1,400 Palestinians, mainly civilians, and 13 Israelis.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-bombards-gaza-ndash-and-threatens-worse-1934732.html

The Israelis have an obligation to protect their citizens. If missiles were fired anywhere into the U.S. there would be strong and appropriate demands that the government take any and all actions to stop the rocket fire.

Stop the terrorism and the war is over.