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Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A 13-year-old Palestinian girl was shot dead on Saturday by an Israeli security guard she tried to stab at a settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israeli police said.
Hours later, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came out against Palestinian groups he said were encouraging youth to take part in an almost four-month long surge of violence with Israel which has raised concern of wider escalation a decade after the last Palestinian uprising subsided.
The fatal incident on Saturday followed two stabbings this week inside settlements carried out by Palestinian teenagers, according to Israeli authorities.
"There are people who want them to go, this is not acceptable. This is a generation we want to build. They send him (youths) there to be wounded or killed," Abbas told reporters in Ramallah.
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