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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: June 1, 2007 |
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Israel Defense Forces troops on Friday afternoon shot dead two Palestinian children, aged 11 and 13, close to the ruins of the former Israeli settlement of Dugit, in the northern Gaza Strip.
An IDF spokeswoman said the two children and another 16-year-old were trying to place a bomb near the border fence, claiming that it was likely they had been paid by a Palestinian terror groups to place an explosive device.
"We know that a number of Palestinians crawled towards the border fence. They know that it is a dangerous area but they did not heed repeated calls to stop and they planted a suspicious device close to the fence," the spokeswoman said.
The 16-year-old, who was unarmed, was wounded and taken to an Israeli hospital for treatment, the IDF said.
Palestinian sources claimed the three had been scavenging for scrap metal.
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