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New clashes in West Bank

NABLUS, West Bank, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Two Palestinian teenagers were killed and two Israel soldiers were injured in clashes in the West Bank, Haaretz reported Tuesday.

The soldiers reportedly encountered stone-throwing rioters and exchanged fire Tuesday with Palestinian militants during a raid on the Ein Beit IImeh refugee camp in Nablus, Haaretz reported.

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Mohammed Khaled, 17, a member of a militant group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was killed in the raid, Haaretz reported.

The Israeli army had no immediate comment on witnesses' claims that Israeli soldiers used a resident as a shield as they moved house to house in search of suspected militants, the report said.

In Ramallah, Mohammed Jabbarin, a 16-year-old Palestinian was killed Monday after he threw rocks at Israeli soldiers, Palestinian sources told Haaretz.

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