Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager Saturday in a clash in a village near Bethlehem, staff at a local hospital reported, AP reported Medics at Beit Jalla hospital said 16-year-old Hassan Hmeid was shot in the chest. Witnesses said soldiers opened fire when a patrol entered the village of Tekoa Saturday. In the northern West Bank, Israeli settlers rampaged through the Palestinian village of Assira Kubliyeh and wounded six residents. Dozens of settlers raided Assira Kubliyeh, shooting in the air, smashing windows and overturning a car, Mayor Hosni Sharaf said. Sharaf said Israeli soldiers arrived and declared a curfew, but that the settler rampage continued for almost three hours. Resident Ahmed Daoud said settlers broke windows in his house and shot at water tanks on his rooftop. Daoud said his 10-year-old son was lightly hurt by shrapnel and that the neighbor was hit in the face by a rubber-coated steel bullet. Sharaf said that in all, two villagers were hit by live fire and four by rubber bullets. One of those hit by live fire, 17-year-old Wafa Subboh, was struck in the shoulder and was treated at Raffidiyeh Hospital in the nearby city of Nablus, hospital officials said.
