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Israeli soldiers beat unconscious a 15-year-old Palestinian student after cornering him on his way home from school in the West Bank village of Taqu, near Bethlehem, on Sunday, witnesses and a school official said.
Hisham Khaled Moussa Ali, a student at the Taqu Boys Secondary School was assaulted by the soldiers on the main road in the village on Sunday afternoon, said school headmaster Salem Abu Mfarreh.
A crowd of Palestinian residents converged on scene and managed to retrieve the boy, who was taken to the public hospital in the town of Beit Jala.
Some 1,200 students at al-Karmel High School for...