- Title: WEST BANK: Israeli soldiers shoot dead young Palestinian in the West Bank
- Date: 10th March 2014
- Summary: RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (MARCH 10, 2014) (REUTERS) AMBULANCE AND ISRAELI ARMY AT SITE WHERE PALESTINIAN WAS KILLED ARMY AT SITE VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS AND PARAMEDICS AT SITE (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) ISRAELI SOLDIER, SAYING: "He threw stones on many vehicles, vehicle with broken glass arrived to me (contacted me) and bus with a broken windows." VARIOUS OF AMBULANCE AND ARMY AT SITE EXTERIOR OF RAMALLAH'S HOSPITAL VARIOUS OF BODY OF 20-YEAR-OLD PALESTINIAN SAJI DARWISH, WHO WAS KILLED BY ARMY, AT HOSPITAL PEOPLE AT HOSPITAL BODY ON STRETCHER (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) GOVERNOR OF RAMALLAH, LAILA GHANNAM, SAYING: "This man is a shepherd, he has sheep. His house is next to the roads that lead to settlement. From his tennis shoe, and his cloths you can know that he is a farmer and has sheep and he feeds his sheep there." PEOPLE AT HOSPITAL
- Embargoed: 25th March 2014 12:00
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- Location: West bank
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Topics: International Relations
- Reuters ID: LVADB4ZV6UZTJPMRS4TYVAW55P65
- Story Text: Israeli soldiers shot dead a young Palestinian in the West Bank near Ramallah on Monday (March 10).
Military official said soldiers fired on the man, who had thrown rocks at a passing Israeli car and a bus, and that the circumstances were being investigated.
The man's relatives said he had been shot while tending his family's goats near his home.
"He threw stones on many vehicles, vehicle with broken glass arrived to me (contacted me) and bus with a broken windows," an Israeli soldier said at the site.
According to the Governor of Ramallah, Laila Ghanam, 20-year-old Saji Darwish is a shepherd.
"This man is a shepherd, he has sheep. His house is next to the roads that lead to settlement. From his tennis shoe, and his clothes you can know that he is a farmer and has sheep and he feeds his sheep there," she said.
In a separate incident, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian judge from Jordan, Palestinian officials said.
The Israeli military said the man had tried to seize a soldier's gun at the Allenby bridge, which spans the Jordan River, and that troops had then shot him.
Last month, Amnesty International published a report which said Israeli forces were using excessive violence in the West Bank, killing dozens of Palestinians over the past three years in what the rights group said might constitute a war crime.
The Israeli army dismissed the criticism, saying security forces had seen a substantial increase in Palestinian violence.
Israel, which captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war, operates a transit terminal for Palestinians and foreigners at the Allenby bridge, known in Jordan as the King Hussein bridge.
A crossing for Israelis is further south. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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