Palestinians have marched in anger at a funeral procession for a 19-year-old killed by Israeli security forces after Jewish settlers rampaged through a flashpoint West Bank town the night before. The youth's death came as tensions have escalated during the Jewish holiday season. It marked the latest in a surge in Israeli-Palestinian fighting that has so far killed nearly 200 Palestinians this year — the highest death toll in about two decades. Some 30 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks on Israelis during that time. Following a brazen Palestinian shooting attack on an Israeli motorist along the volatile route through the Palestinian town of Hawara on Thursday, mobs from nearby Israeli settlements stormed into the town.
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Palestinians in Hawara claimed that an Israeli settler shot and killed Dumaidi, a freshman majoring in graphic design at the nearby Palestine Technical University, while he was standing on his rooftop watching clashes unfold on the street between settlers and Palestinians. The conflicting accounts could not immediately be reconciled.
He said that starting a successful business in Hawara was his biggest accomplishment in life and that he’d never leave, even if settlers try to force him.
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