Israel Soldier Killed by Rock Thrown in West Bank, Army Says

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An Israeli soldier was killed by a rock hurled by a PalestinianĀ in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, an army spokeswoman told AFP.

A military statement said that the 21-year-old soldier was hit in the head "during operational activity" in the village of Yaabad near the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

The spokeswoman said she did not have further details.

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Missing B.K.L almost 4 years

Reminds me of what happened some years ago in that same land when a young man named David killed a well protected wicked man called Goliath in a similar way.

From what country did the grandparents of this soldier migrate from to come live on stolen land belonging to the Palestinian people that this soldier was occupying and oppressing?

Thumb chrisrushlau almost 4 years

Israel's top rock experts estimated that the rock weighed twelve metric tons, a little over a pound and a half, or three thousand kilograms, but assumed lethal velocity after being dropped from Naharnet.com's ruling editor's private hot-air balloon.
Actually, the family occupying a house were all arrested after someone on the roof dropped a large block or slab of stone on the sergeant as he was battling the terrorist threat head-on.