In third such incident in three days, soldiers open fire at three Palestinians carrying Molotov cocktails northwest of Ramallah, injuring one of them. Palestinian sources say 19-year-old man died of his wounds at hospital.

Third Palestinian killed in three days: A Palestinian holding a Molotov cocktail was shot Wednesday night by an IDF force in the village of Kufr Malik, northwest of the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Ramallah hospital reported that the man died of his wounds.
Two other Palestinians carrying Molotov cocktails were killed by IDF soldiers in the past three days.

The army reported that a force belonging to the Kfir Brigade spotted three Palestinians, two of them about to hurl incendiary bombs. The soldiers fired at them, identifying a hit. There were no injuries among the soldiers.
Palestinian sources reported that the man killed was 19-year-old Aziz al-Haj, who was shot in his leg and was left to bleed for a long time before being rushed to the Ramallah hospital, where he died of his wounds.

Three wanted Palestinian terror suspects were arrested by the IDF in the West Bank on Wednesday night.
Two of the suspects were detained in the Nablus area and the third was arrested near Bethlehem. They were all taken in for questioning by the security forces.
Muhammed al-Ramahi, 17, was critically wounded on Wednesday evening after being shot by IDF troops in the Jilazun refugee camp near Ramallah. He was evacuated by Palestinian paramedics to the Ramallah hospital, but died of his wounds in the late evening hours.
The army said the soldiers opened fire after the youth hurled a Molotov cocktail.
The incident occurred in close proximity to where 16-year-old Abdel Rahman Badwi was killed on Tuesday under similar circumstances. Badwi and two other youths had been pelting Israeli cars with rocks and, the army said, Molotov cocktails.

Thousands attended Badwi’s funeral on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority continues to maintain that the incidents are not part of a renewed intifada, and accuses the IDF of creating provocations.

A PA official from Ramallah told Ynet that the army was conducting patrols in the refugee camp with no apparent reason, and this in turn provokes youths to attack the troops – a phenomenon which has faded in recent years.

Palestinian Authority slams offer that would see Israel hand over 92.7% of West Bank and all of Gaza as ‘not serious’

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an Israeli peace proposal because it does not provide for a contiguous Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, Abbas’ office said on Tuesday.

Nabil Abu Rudeina, who is also a spokesman for the Palestinian leader, said the proposal did not fall in line with requirements of the Road Map and the Annapolis understandings that the borders of the future Palestinian state should correspond with Israel’s pre-1967 borders.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with ‘Abbas last week as part of an ongoing series of meetings to push forward the peace process.

Abu Rudeina was responding to a report in the Israeli daily Haaretz on Tuesday that said Israel had made the proposal, which included land compensation and an offer of a corridor that would connect the Gaza Strip with the West Bank. This corridor would allow free passage of Palestinians between the two areas without security checks.

Under the deal, Israel would maintain large blocs of Jewish communities in post-1967 territories.

Under Olmert’s offer, Israel would keep 7 percent of the West Bank, while the Palestinians would receive territory equivalent to 5.5 percent of West Bank. Israel views the passage between Gaza and the West Bank as compensating for this difference: Though it would officially remain in Israeli hands, it would connect the two halves of the Palestinian state - a connection the Palestinians did not enjoy before 1967, when the Gaza Strip was under Egyptian control and the West Bank was part of Jordan.

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