Special
report: Israel launches Gaza
assault
RAMALLAH, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Israeli army on Monday
opened fire at a Palestinian teenage boy and killed him in the West Bank city of
Jericho, Palestinian witnesses reported.
The witnesses said that 16-year-old Raakan Keyd
Nasariyat was shot dead by Israeli army when he approach a checkpoint in Jordan
Valley, north of Jericho.
Israeli military also confirmed the shooting
incident, saying that Israeli soldier fired at him after they spotted the
approach of a Palestinian man who was holding a pistol.
However, according to Israel's initial investigation,
the pistol found in the hand of the slain boy is a fake one, which was made of
plastic only.
Israeli military explained that the soldiers
stationed in the checkpoint, where the boy was killed, are more strained after
an Israeli soldier was shot dead by a Palestinian gunman in August.
Israeli airstrike hits car in Gaza,
killing 2 Hamas militants
GAZA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- A
fresh Israeli air raid targeted a car in eastern Gaza City on Monday evening,
killing two Hamas militants on board and wounding four bystanders, Palestinian
medics and witnesses said.
Witnesses said that
an Israeli reconnaissance drone fired one air-to-ground missile on a car driving
in Gaza City's eastern neighborhood of Sheja'eya.
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Israeli ground forces enter into parts
of Beit Hanoun
GAZA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Israeli
forces entered parts of the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun on Monday
morning after Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel, security sources
and witnesses said.
Israeli tanks and
bulldozers sealed off roads that link the border town with the northern Gaza
Strip, witnesses said. 
