Israeli soldiers shot dead an 11-year-old Palestinian boy this evening during an exchange of fire near the West Bank village of Dura south of the city of Hebron, the boy's family said.
Doctors in the Hebron hospital said Mahmoud Ismail Daraweesh was shot in the heart. A cousin said the boy was standing on the roof of his house in Dura watching an exchange of fire between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers when he was shot from the Israeli position.
The Israeli army said it had no information on the death but confirmed that its soldiers had traded fire with Palestinian gunmen at the nearby Al-Fawwar refugee camp.
The death brought to at least 350 the number of Palestinians killed in the six-month-old Palestinian uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Thirteen Israeli Arabs and 67 Israeli Jews have also been killed.