The New York Times · 19 December 1982

CP-1982-046

Israeli Troops Kill Arab Youth

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“Samir Ghazal Taflak, 19 years old. He was hit in the chest with a bullet, Palestinian sources said. An army spokesman said soldiers had fired at the feet of youths who had hurled stones.”

Context added by this archive

Nine column inches. The army says it fired at their feet; the boy was hit in the chest. Both sentences are printed, and the archive keeps the brief because it has his name in it: Samir Ghazal Taflak, nineteen, a student at King Talal High School in Nablus.

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"Israeli Troops Kill Arab Youth," The New York Times, 19 December 1982. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1982-046. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1982-046

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