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| Hebron 'fake gun' teenager killed by Israeli troops | Hebron 'fake gun' teenager killed by Israeli troops |
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| Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian teenager carrying a fake gun in the West Bank city of Hebron. | Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian teenager carrying a fake gun in the West Bank city of Hebron. |
| Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the youth had pulled out a fake pistol which border police thought was real, so they opened fire. | |
| The boy was named locally as 16-year-old Mohammed Ziad Sulaima, Reuters reported. | The boy was named locally as 16-year-old Mohammed Ziad Sulaima, Reuters reported. |
| Clashes broke out after the shooting, which happened near a contested site holy to Jews and Muslims. | |
| Known to Jews as The Cave of the Patriarchs and Muslims as the al-Ibrahimi mosque, the site is where the Bible says Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were buried with three of their wives. | Known to Jews as The Cave of the Patriarchs and Muslims as the al-Ibrahimi mosque, the site is where the Bible says Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were buried with three of their wives. |
| Hebron is home to about 160,000 Muslims and some 500 Jewish settlers who live in the centre of the city, guarded by Israeli troops. | |
| Last week, Israeli security forces shot dead a Palestinian man armed with an axe in the northern West Bank. |