Seven-year-old Palestinian killed by stray bullet

A seven-year-old Palestinian boy was killed today during a firefight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in a West Bank refugee camp, hospital officials said.

The boy, Khaled Walweel, was in his home in the Balata camp when he was killed by a stray bullet to the head, according to doctors at Rafidiyah Hospital in the nearby West Bank city of Nablus.