[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Two Palestinians were shot dead in two different attempts to attack Jewish settlements in the West Bank on Friday.
On Friday night, one Palestinian was killed and another was lightly wounded after IDF soldiers shot at the men, who were hurling Molotov cocktails at houses in Beit El. The soldiers were on guard duty in the area of the West Bank settlement of Beit El when they spotted two Palestinians, and tried to arrest the suspects. However, when the suspects did not cooperate, the soldiers opened fire at them, killing one man and lightly wounding the other.
Palestinian reports identified the person killed as a 16-year-old youth from the Jilazun refugee camp in the West Bank.
The incident occurred hours after the Yesha council urged the Defense Establishment to reconsider the planned cuts to West Bank settlement security after a Palestinian armed with a knife infiltrated Beit Hagai on Friday morning. The man was shot dead by residents of the settlement, in the southern Hebron hills, after he tried to stab them. |