West Bank: Israeli Forces Fatally Shoot a Palestinian

posted on: Feb 3, 2015

Israeli forces fatally shot one Palestinian and wounded another on Saturday in the West Bank after they were spotted throwing a firebomb onto a road near Nablus that is also used by Israeli settlers, the Israeli military said. Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, said the dead Palestinian was Ahmed Ibrahim al-Najar, 19. The military said that the soldiers had fired at the suspects’ legs and that the episode was under investigation. In October, Israeli forces fatally shot a 14-year-old Palestinian who also held American citizenship in what the military said were similar circumstances. In December, an Israeli girl, 11, was severely injured when a firebomb hit the car in which she was traveling near her home in a West Bank settlement.

Source: www.nytimes.com