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By Hassan Titi
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian policeman shot dead an Israeli and wounded four others after they entered a holy site in a West Bank city without permission Sunday, the Israeli military said.
The group of ultra-Orthodox...
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Jewish worshippers react after arriving outside a military camp following a shooting in the West Bank city of Nablus April 24, 2011.
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By Hassan Titi
NABLUS, West Bank |
Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:18am EDT
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian policeman shot dead an Israeli and wounded four others after they entered a holy site in a West Bank city without permission Sunday, the Israeli military said.
The group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish worshippers were shot at Joseph's Tomb, which some Jews believe to be the burial place of the biblical patriarch, in the Palestinian city of Nablus.
The man killed, Ben-Yosef Livnat, was in his mid-twenties and a nephew of Culture and Sports Minister Limor Livnat, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.
"An Israeli civilian was killed and four others injured after entering Joseph's Tomb in Nablus un-permitted," the military said in a statement in English.
The military said it had been notified by Palestinian officials that "the civilians were shot by a Palestinian policeman who, after identifying suspicious movements, fired in their direction."
Israeli and Palestinian security officials will meet to investigate the shooting, the statement said.
The governor of Nablus, Jibreen al-Bakri, said the group of Israelis had "entered the area without coordinating it with the Palestinian Authority, as is the understanding with Israel."
"We have detained the forces responsible for securing the area and are investigating what happened," Bakri told Reuters.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said a lack of coordination did not justify the shooting and called on the Palestinian Authority to "take all necessary measures" against those responsible.
A tearful Livnat said at her nephew's funeral in Jerusalem that he was "an innocent victim murdered by a terrorist in the guise of a Palestinian policeman while on his way to prayers during the Passover holiday."
It was the first reported fatal attack on Israelis in the West Bank since the killing of five family members last month in the settlement of Itamar in a nearby area in the central West Bank.
After Sunday's incident, some settlers threw stones at Palestinian vehicles near the Hawara checkpoint close to Nablus, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
Violence in the West Bank has fallen significantly since its peak during a Palestinian uprising a decade ago.
Some 500,000 settlers live among 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Palestinians say the presence of the enclaves will deny them a viable state on land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
(Additional reporting by Ali Sawafta in Ramallah; writing by Ori Lewis; editing by Robert Woodward)
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anonym0us wrote:
Yet another proof that so-called “Palestinian security forces” are mere terrorists, just in uniform. Yet another proof that Israel has no partner to make peace with.
Apr 24, 2011 9:54am EDT -- Report as abuse
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