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January 17, 2023

Israeli Soldiers Kill 14-Year-Old Palestinian in West Bank Raid
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In the occupied West Bank, Israeli troops shot and killed a 14-year-old
Palestinian boy on Monday as they carried out a raid in the Dheisheh
refugee camp near Bethlehem. Omar Khmour was a student in the ninth
grade at a United Nations refugee agency school. He was the 14th
Palestinian killed by Israeli troops so far in 2023 and the fourth
Palestinian child killed since the new year. 

His death came less than two days after an estimated 80,000 Israelis
rallied in Tel Aviv to protest plans by Israel's new far-right
government to overhaul the judicial system. Similar protests were held
in Jerusalem and Haifa. A plan led by Benjamin Netanyahu would sharply
limit judicial powers by allowing a simple majority of lawmakers to
invalidate Supreme Court decisions.


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