On their latest list of “martyrs” killed by Israeli forces, presented to their friends at the United Nations, Palestinians included the name of a teenaged boy who was murdered by Hamas terrorists when he tried to stop them from using his property to fire Qassam missiles into Israel: Palestinians Mislead UN on Youth’s Death.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel accused the Palestinian Authority on Thursday of misleading the United Nations by including a youth gunned down by Palestinian militants on a list of people killed by Israeli forces.

Hassan Jamil el-Zaneen, a teenage resident of the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, was killed by Palestinian militants on July 22 after he tried to stop them from using his family’s yard to fire Qassam rockets into Israel.

Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades took responsibility for the slaying but then issued a statement asserting that “Hassan Jamil el-Zaneen fell a martyr” during a clash between militants and Israeli soldiers.

An Aug. 9 letter to the U.N. Security Council and Secretary-General Kofi Annan from Palestinian U.N. observer Nasser al-Kidwa listed the boy among 59 Palestinian “martyrs” who had been “killed by the Israeli occupying forces” between July 8 and Aug. 6.

His letter was made public on Thursday.

The allegation that el-Zaneen was among Palestinians killed by Israeli armed forces was “blatantly false,” Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman said in a letter to Annan and the Security Council, a copy of which was given Reuters.

“The international community is very familiar with the perverse misrepresentations and outright fabrications in Palestinian statements,” Gillerman’s letter said.