WEST BANK: Hundreds march in funeral for a Palestinian man killed by Israeli border police in East Jerusalem

Record ID: 560467

  • Title: WEST BANK: Hundreds march in funeral for a Palestinian man killed by Israeli border police in East Jerusalem
  • Date: 4th October 2010
  • Summary: SAEER, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 3, 2010) (REUTERS) PEOPLE CROWDED OVER BODY OF PALESTINIAN MAN (FACE UNCOVERED) KILLED BY AN ISRAELI POLICEMAN IN EARLY MORNING, WHILE TRYING TO ENTER EAST JERUSALEM WITHOUT A PERMIT YOUNG GIRL CRYING WOMAN WEEPING OVER BODY HUNDREDS GATHERING OUTSIDE HOUSE
  • Embargoed: 19th October 2010 13:00
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  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVACFQL9VEG2USEOSAJKJNHFDOER
  • Story Text: Israeli border police killed a Palestinian on Sunday (October 3) after he entered East Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank without a permit.
    A police spokesman said the man, 37, was shot while trying to grab a border policeman's pistol.
    A Palestinian who said he witnessed the incident, which occurred before dawn, disputed the police account.
    Salah Abed Rabbo said he and the man killed in the shooting, Ezz el-Deen Kawazba from Saeer village in the northern city of Hebron in the West Bank, were among six Palestinian labourers who had slipped across an Israeli barrier, which takes in much of East Jerusalem, and fled from border policemen giving chase.
    He said he witnessed the shooting after reaching higher ground and turning around to check on what was happening. Police said the incident would be investigated by its internal affairs department.
    Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 war and calls the whole city its capital, a status not recognised abroad. After an armed Palestinian revolt erupted a decade ago, Israel erected the barrier, a move it called a security measure and which Palestinians condemned as a land grab.
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