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| Israeli police blame grenade accident for Palestinian shepherd's death |
| 2008-09-30 |
| Israeli police on Monday denied claims that Jewish settlers shot a Palestinian shepherd, saying the teenager found dead in the West Bank was killed by shrapnel from a grenade that he was handling. "The autopsy showed the shepherd was killed from shrapnel from an explosion and not from gunshots," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP. "Investigations at the scene confirmed that the young man was killed by the explosion of a rifle grenade which he handled and that he either found there or was given to him," he said. Rosenfeld ruled out the possibility that the grenade, of the type used by the Israeli Army, was fired by residents of a nearby Jewish settlement. Palestinian security officials said Sunday the shepherd, identified as Yehia Apa Riham, 18, was shot dead by Israeli settlers. The young man was among a group of shepherds grazing flocks south of the city of Nablus and near Itamar settlement on Saturday when they were attacked by settlers, the security sources said. Several violent attacks by settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank have been reported in recent months. - |
| Posted by:Fred |