WEST BANK: Palestinian shot dead by Israeli troops at a West Bank checkpoint is buried

Record ID: 561258

  • Title: WEST BANK: Palestinian shot dead by Israeli troops at a West Bank checkpoint is buried
  • Date: 3rd January 2011
  • Summary: TUBAS, WEST BANK (JANUARY 2, 2011) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF FUNERAL PROCESSION FOR PALESTINIAN MAN KILLED BY ISRAELI TROOP PEOPLE CARRYING FLAGS OF THE DEMOCRATIC FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE, CHANTING SLOGANS MORE OF FUNERAL PROCESSION PEOPLE MARCHING, HOLDING STRETCHER WITH BODY WOMEN CHANTING MORE OF FUNERAL PROCESSION
  • Embargoed: 18th January 2011 12:00
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  • Location: West bank, West bank
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,War / Fighting
  • Reuters ID: LVAEP7G70WQHX9S6FL3EEZEC1MV7
  • Story Text: A funeral procession was held on Sunday (January 2) for a Palestinian man who was shot and killed by Israeli troops at a West Bank checkpoint.
    A military spokeswoman said the man, identified by Palestinian officials as 24-year-old Ahmed Muslamani from the village of Tubas, did not heed soldiers' orders to halt, and they opened fire as he came closer holding a bottle. The spokeswoman added she did not know the contents of the glass bottle and that 'the soldiers apparently felt threatened'.
    Muslamani was shot in the chest and leg, said a Palestinian medical worker who collected the body at the Israeli military checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus.
    Violence in the occupied West Bank has largely tapered off in the past few years as a result of security measures by Israel and a bolstered Palestinian police force supervised by Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's government.
    But on Saturday (January 1), a Palestinian woman died after inhaling gas that had been fired by Israeli forces quelling a protest a day earlier against Israel's West Bank barrier near the village of Bilin, a senior Palestinian medical official said.
    The Israeli military said troops had employed riot dispersal means against stone throwers and the circumstances of the woman's death were under investigation.
    ENDS
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