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Source: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5962183
Palestinians Mislead UN on Youth's Death
(Reuters) Israel accused the Palestinian Authority on Thursday of misleading the UN by including a youth gunned down by Palestinian militants on a list of people killed by Israeli forces. Hassan Jamil el-Zaneen, a teenage resident of the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, was killed by Palestinian militants on July 22 after he tried to stop them from using his family's yard to fire Kassam rockets into Israel. An Aug. 9 letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from Palestinian UN observer Nasser al-Kidwa listed the boy among the Palestinian "martyrs" "killed by the Israeli occupying forces" between July 8 and Aug. 6. Israeli UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman said in a letter to Annan that the allegation that el-Zaneen was killed by Israeli armed forces was "blatantly false." "The international community is very familiar with the perverse misrepresentations and outright fabrications in Palestinian statements," Gillerman's letter said.