The World - News from Dec. 4, 1988

Israeli troops fatally shot a Palestinian teen-ager and wounded at least 15 other Arabs in clashes in the occupied territories. The army ordered curfews in three West Bank towns and barred reporters from Nablus, the West Bank’s largest city, in response to the unrest. The 16-year-old Palestinian boy was killed in the village of Beit Furik, about 4 miles east of Nablus, when troops opened fire on demonstrators who erected stone barricades and hurled rocks and bottles at soldiers, the army said. The youth, whose name was not immediately released, died of bullet wounds to the neck and chest at a Nablus hospital, Arab doctors said.