JERUSALEM, NOV 4: A 14-year-old Palestinian girl was critically-wounded by live fire during clashes with Israeli troops near the divided West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday, Palestinian medical sources said.The sources said the girl was shot in the head after she walked out of school and into a confrontation between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians. She was undergoing surgery.An Israeli army spokeswoman said soldiers had not fired live ammunition in the fighting near Hebron and had used rubber-coated metal bullets to disperse stone-throwers.Clashes also flared in other parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in a sixth week of violence in which at least 171 people, mostly Palestinians, have been killed.The violence underscored the fragility of a truce forged on Thursday between Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Cabinet Minister Shimon Peres.The latest fighting flared as Israelis marked the fifth anniversary of the assassination by an ultra-right Jew of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, which sealed the 1993 Oslo interim peace deal with Arafat.Rabin, Arafat and Peres shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.In the Gaza Strip, eight Palestinians were hurt when they tried to penetrate a border fence with Israel early on Saturday, hospital sources said.Israel Radio said Palestinians in the West Bank towns of Ramallah and Tulkarm threw stones and petrol bombs at Israeli soldiers.
