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An Israeli security guard shot dead a Palestinian teenager Friday during a protest of Israel’s West Bank separation barrier, police said.
Demonstrators marked the first anniversary of a ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague that the barrier–a network of ditches, barbed wire and concrete blocks–violates international law and must be taken down.
The guard was taken into custody pending an investigation, a police spokesman said.
Palestinian hospital staff identified the boy, who died near the West Bank village of Beit Laqia, as Mahyoub Assi, 16.
