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Occupation magazine - Life under occupation Home page  back Print  Send To friend Israeli army `provoked Palestinian teenager and then shot him` Robert Tait The Telegraph 16.1.13 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/9806820/Israeli-army-provoked-Palestinian-teenager-and-then-shot-him.html A Palestinian schoolboy killed by Israeli gunfire near the West Bank separation barrier had been reacting to insults shouted by soldiers with loudhailers before he was shot, eyewitnesses have said. The claim contradicts an account given by the Israeli army, which says 16-year-old Samir Awad was shot after cutting through a section of the security fence as he tried `infiltrate into Israel`. The teenager died on Tuesday after being shot three times. He was hit from behind as he was running away from Israeli troops in the village of Boudrous, according to his family. Doctors at Ramallah Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, said he had suffered gunshot wounds to his neck, leg and torso. An Israeli Defence Forces spokesman said the shooting happened after soldiers initiated `standard rules of engagement`, which include live fire, to respond to such incidents. That was challenged on Wednesday by Samir Awad`s family, teachers and school friends, who said he had approached the fence only after being incited by Israeli troops, who had used loudspeakers to provoke pupils at Boudrous Secondary School, which sits 200 yards away, into a confrontation. `They were shouting, `Come dogs, Come to the wall,` 10-year-old Khaled Shaheen told The Daily Telegraph. `They were also calling us sons-of-bitches and saying your mothers are dogs and adulteresses. They were shouting on the loudspeakers before Samir left his class rh Links to the latest articles in this section Occupation forces injure mourners following funeral of slain infant Mohammad Tamimi Nabi Saleh village assaulted - toddler shot in the head died in hospital Palestinians in the snow: thrown from home into the snow, throw snowballs and get arrested