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It makes sense. Pals claimed the IDF killed two teenagers with their indiscriminate firing. The IDF says the teens were killed by a Palestinian bomb.

Joe citizen... I will let James Bennet of New York times talk to you...

"On Tuesday night, Palestinian officials reported that Israeli snipers had killed two other children while they were taking in laundry on the family's roof. They were Asma al-Moghair, 16, and her brother, Ahmad, 13.

But an Israeli officer leading the operation, whom the army would identify only as Colonel Erez, said an initial army investigation of the deaths was inconclusive. He noted that Palestinians had planted many bombs in hopes of killing soldiers.

"We don't rule out the possibility that these youngsters were killed by the bombs," he said. "I can say unequivocally that no one in our unit put this boy and girl in his cross hairs with the aim of killing them."

Colonel Erez said that Israel had asked that the bodies be turned over for the investigation.

Asma's body was in the morgue of Al Najar hospital, which, with a capacity of only six corpses, had quickly filled.

Dr. Nikara untied a cord binding the cloth around the child's neck, then pulled back Asma's hair to reveal a hole the size of a half dollar over her left ear — an exit wound. She had no sign of shrapnel wounds.

"This is what the Israelis call an accident," the doctor said.

Ahmad lay in the flower cooler. He had a similar hole in his head, above his right ear, and he did not have shrapnel wounds. "

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