A group of armed Palestinians walk through a crowd of about 1,000 men who gathered February 17 to demonstrate for the immediate death sentence to be handed down to an 18-year-old Palestinian arrested yesterday for the rape of a five-year-old Palestinian girl which also occured yesterday. The crowd presented a letter to the Nablus governor asking the man be executed for his crime. The gunmen with automatic weapons fired in the air at various times during the protest.

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