A Palestinian man was shot and killed by a Jewish settler near the village of Qusra in the northern West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian media reported.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the man, identified as 48-year-old Mahmoud Zael Oudeh, was killed while tending to his field.
The Israeli army confirmed that shots were fired at a Palestinian, but said the shooting was a matter of self-defense.
Israeli settlers told Haaretz that the shots were fired after Palestinians attacked some 20 school children between Qusra and the settlement of Migdalim. Some of them sought shelter in a nearby cave. The Samaria Regional Council said over 100 Palestinians attempted to carry out a lynching.
Two Israelis were lightly wounded in the incident, Magen David Adom emergency responders confirmed: a 40-year-old man was struck in his head and a 45-year-old man was struck in his hand. They were both taken to Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva.
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“A short time ago rocks were thrown by Palestinians at a group of hikers near the village of Qusra one of the settlers opened fire at the Palestinians,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement. The army added that soldiers are at the scene “to give medical assistance, disperse the unrest and evacuate the hikers.”
Kusai Abed Almanam, a member of the regional council of Qusra, told Haaretz that the Palestinian killed in the altercations with Israeli settlers “is known in the village as a farmer who often tends to his land.”
According to Almanam, “Mahmoud Zael Oudeh left [to go to his] plot of land, which is located several kilometers away from Esh Kodesh. He was with his wife so the whole version claiming they attacked the settlers is a lie. Such a man and his wife could not attack a group of fifteen settlers.”
Almanam added that “one of the settlers shot him and he was gravely injured and died at a local clinic.”
Settlers who were at the scene say that the security guard who was safeguarding the school trip shot Oudeh. They added that Palestinians then grabbed the security guard’s weapon, threatened the traveling students and proceeded to steal their cellphones. The IDF is currently searching the area for the stolen weapon.
Ghassan Douglas, a Palestinian Authority official who deals with the settlements, said that the Palestinian was shot in the chest and later succumbed to his wounds in a Nablus hospital. Douglas added that the settlers who shot the Palestinian were from a nearby settlement or the Esh Kodesh outpost.
This is not the first clash between settlers and Palestinians in the area. In January 2014 ten masked settlers from the Esh Kodesh outpost entered the village of Qusra. They were surrounded and beaten by dozens of Palestinians. Qusra residents who tried to defend the settlers contacted the Israeli army, and soldiers arrived on the scene to evacuate them.
Article source: http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Iran-news-agency-says-Tehran-closed-border-with-northern-Iraq-507448
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