Israeli soldiers shoot protester

The Associated Press, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

“JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian protester in the West Bank today, Arab hospital officials said, as demonstrations heated up before the arrival of Secretary of State George Shultz. The army said it was checking the reported death. If confirmed, it would be the 64th Arab killed by Israeli gunfire since the current wave of unrest began Dec. 8. The Arab-run Palestine Press Service identified the victim as Issam Said Abu Khalifeh, 18, and said he was killed during a demonstration at the Jenin refugee camp. Hospital officials said he was shot in the head and chest.”

Context added by this archive

Four sentences, and two things this archive counts. The headline names who fired, which most of the death headlines here do not. And the dead man has a name — supplied not by the wire service but by a Palestinian news agency, which the copy is careful to call Arab-run.

Cite this item

"Israeli soldiers shoot protester," Kearney Hub, 25 February 1988. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1988-043. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1988-043

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Gaza Strip: the forgotten stepchildNorthwest Herald · 4 January 1988 · the same year
Israeli soldiers fire on protestersCarroll County Times · 6 January 1988 · the same year
Israel condemns U.N. vote on deportationsThe Birmingham News · 6 January 1988 · the same year

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