The New York Times · 6 December 1986

CP-1986-013

Israelis Kill West Bank Boy Who They Say Threw Rocks

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“Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in the West Bank today after he and other youths threw stones… The bodies of the students… Abu Dahhab and Jawad Abu Selmi, both 22…”

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Thomas Friedman. Read the headline's middle clause — who they say threw rocks — which attributes the justification to the killers while stating the killing as fact. Two Birzeit students, both 22, were buried the same week; the boy was 14.

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"Israelis Kill West Bank Boy Who They Say Threw Rocks," The New York Times, 6 December 1986. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1986-013. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1986-013

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