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Palestinian sources: Teen shot dead by Israeli soldiersIDF says it arrested head of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
GAZA CITY (CNN) -- A 16-year-old boy who is said to have been bird-hunting on a road used exclusively by Israeli vehicles was shot and killed Saturday by soldiers, according to Palestinian security sources.
Hatem Alejla was on a road that connects the Netzarim settlement to Karni Pass, the sources said, when he was shot. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces said soldiers identified a group of Palestinians approaching a security fence. He said the soldiers shot into the air as a warning, but said they did not hit anybody. The spokesman said they were still checking the report of the death of the 16-year-old boy. In Nablus, the IDF said it arrested Majd al Matsry, head of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. The IDF said al Matsry is originally from Balata refugee camp, near Nablus, and has been involved with the "Tanzim" in Tulkarem, Nablus and Jenin. Tanzim is the term Israeli officials use to describe militia members of Fatah. Al Matsry is responsible for many attacks against Israelis, the IDF said. In a phone call to the Reuters news agency, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for a terror attack that killed six Israelis Thursday. The attack was the same day as the Likud party primary elections. Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus station and the adjacent Likud party polling station in Beit Shean, Israel, killing six people and injuring more than 30. (Full story) The Israeli newspaper Haaretz identified the victims of that attack as Haim Amar, 56; David Peretz, 48; Mordechai Avraham, 44; Yaakov Lari, 35; Yehuda Avitan, 54; and Shaul Zilberstein, 36. Haaretz identified Zilberstein as a security guard at the polling station. Funerals were held for all six Friday. The IDF said that during the past two weeks, 55 Palestinians wanted by the security forces have been arrested -- among them five senior operators: four from Tanzim; and one from Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
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