Israel policewoman ‘shot Palestinian for fun’, court hears
An Israeli policewoman is suspected of shooting an unarmed Palestinian “for fun” while on duty near a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank.
The 20-year-old policewoman was arrested yesterday and appeared before Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court in a bail hearing. The court heard that the policewoman allegedly shot an unarmed Palestinian in the back with a sponge-tipped bullet “without any operational reason”, leaving him seriously wounded. The court’s judge, Elad Persky, said the policewoman seemed to have shot the Palestinian “as a dubious form of entertainment”, before ordering that she be held for another three days.
Minister: Palestinian mom killed by rock throwers a ‘scrap of an incident’
Yariv Levin says left-wing groups are too quick to accuse Jewish extremists of throwing the rocks that caused deadly West Bank car crash, in which mother of 8 died
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Tourism Minister Yariv Levin on Sunday appeared to downplay an apparent rock throwing attack that left a Palestinian woman dead, criticizing left-wing activists for blaming Jewish settlers and saying they were basing their accusations on a “scrap of an incident.”
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