The Palestinian youth was slain by Israeli police. Isaac Ajlouni, a teenage Palestinian, was killed by Israeli security forces, who allege ...

 The Palestinian youth was slain by Israeli police.

Isaac Ajlouni, a teenage Palestinian, was killed by Israeli security forces, who allege that he tried to attack a security guard today at a checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem.

According to a statement from the Israeli police, a Palestinian who was carrying an M16 weapon fired at security officers, wounding one of them, and they replied by killing him.

They claimed that the young man travelled there on foot from the Jordan River and the West Bank.

According to certain Palestinian accounts, 17-year-old Ajlouni, who lived in Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem, was killed at the Qalandia traffic checkpoint.

The statement adds c.