(newspaper unidentified) · 26 October 1988
CP-1988-138
Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Girl in Gaza
Transcribed from the clipping
JERUSALEM, Oct. 25 (AP) — Israeli troops opened fire on stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrators in the occupied Gaza Strip today, killing a 14-year-old girl, hospital officials said. Eighteen Palestinians were wounded in clashes between Israelis and Arab demonstrators in seven towns and refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, hospital officials said.
Three of the wounded were shot by an Israeli truck driver who fired into a crowded Gaza vegetable market after his truck was hit by a firebomb, witnesses said. The firebomb did not cause serious damage, the witnesses said. The army confirmed that two Palestinians were wounded in the West Bank, and it said that it was checking the other casualty reports.
The dead girl was identified as Manal Samour of the Shati refugee district, on the edge of Gaza. Witnesses in Shati said the girl apparently was struck when soldiers fired on demonstrators from a rooftop. The witnesses said anti-Israeli protests broke out in the camp after word of the girl’s death spread. The camp later was put under curfew, witnesses said.
The death raised to 267 the number of Palestinians killed since December, the start of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule in the occupied territories.
How this transcription was made
Masthead not readable on the scan. The label on the slide read: [masthead not on scan] — One clipping, one scan. Short AP item, complete on the page. — No masthead or running head on this scan; the clipping is cut to the headline and two columns. The dateline reads “JERUSALEM, Oct. 25 (AP)”, consistent with a 26 October 1988 paper. Not confirmed from the page.
Cite this clipping
"Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Girl in Gaza," (newspaper unidentified), 26 October 1988. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1988-138. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1988-138
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