[DEBATE] : Teen crushed by Israeli bulldozer in Gaza

[Riaz K. Tayob]

Teen crushed by Israeli bulldozer in Gaza
AFP
AFP - Thursday, September 20 01:13 pm

GAZA CITY (AFP) - A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was killed on Thursday 
after being run over by an Israeli army bulldozer during a military 
incursion in the Gaza Strip, medics and witnesses said.
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Mahmud Kayed was run over by the bulldozer when it lurched towards a 
group of youths throwing rocks at the vehicle during the army incursion 
in the Al-Bureij refugee camp, they said.

Four Palestinians, including two militants from the Hamas movement that 
has ruled Gaza for three months, were wounded by Israeli gunfire during 
the operation, medics said.

The two militants, one of whom was seriously wounded, were injured by 
helicopter fire, medics said.

Israeli bulldozers were ripping up farmland in the area, while soldiers 
were going house to house searching for militants and weapons, they said.

No comment from the Israeli army was immediately available.

The death brings to 5,866 the number of people killed since the start of 
the second Palestinian uprising in in September 2000, the vast majority 
of them Palestinians, according to an AFP tally.