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Stuff.nz: Israeli troops kill boy, 5
JENIN: An Israeli soldier has killed a five-year-old Palestinian boy and wounded his two sisters in the West Bank, in an incident the army said was an accident.

Friday's shooting, hours before Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas was due to meet US President George W Bush in Washington, marred a lull in violence since Palestinian militants declared a three-month ceasefire on June 29.

A witness, Ghassan Qabha, said a soldier in an armoured vehicle opened fire with a machinegun at a car passing through a checkpoint in the West Bank, killing five-year-old Mohammed Qabha and wounding his two sisters.

The army said the boy was killed in a mishap when a soldier accidentally pressed the trigger of a machinegun and fired a volley of bullets, hitting the three children.

THIS is a cease-fire?