As the cycle of violence continued unabated in the West Bank and Gaza Strip a row between the Israeli army and government over how to end it was growing deeper. A 12-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead by Israeli troops in the Nablus refugee camp of Balata Wednesday night, Palestinian medical sources said. The soldiers opened fire when the boy threw stones at their jeep inside the camp. In further overnight unrest, the Israeli army staged a brief incursion into the already battered southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, Palestinian security sources said. Bulldozers backed by armoured cars demolished a house near the Israeli-controlled border with Egypt, the sources said.

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