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A masked Palestinian throwing rocks during a protest in the West Bank on Sunday. (AP)
Last update - 00:53 04/03/2008
Police slam IDF probe into killing of West Bank teen by settler
By Yuval Azoulay and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: Israeli, Ramallah 

Police on Monday expressed reservations over an Israel Defense Forces preliminary investigation into the killing of a Palestinian teen by a West Bank settler, which determined that he acted appropriately.

The Neriah resident told IDF investigators he had opened fire on the Palestinian youth with his personal weapon near the West Bank city of Ramallah, after a group of some 30 protesters surrounded him during his morning walk.

He was arrested after the incident and told investigators that he had begun shooting out of fear that the protesters would try to lynch him.
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According to the preliminary probe, the man encountered the group while walking a side street in the Talmonim settlement.

When the group began hurling rocks at him, the settler said, he opened fire into the air to deter them. When the group continued to throw rocks at him, he pointed his gun at the 17-year-old protester, striking him in the lower body.

Colonel Amir Abulafia, who headed the preliminary probe, determined that the settler acted appropriately.

A police source told Haaretz that "with respect to the officer who conducted the IDF investigation, the police probe has yet to reach conclusions."

"Unlike the military probe, police are now seeking evidence on the ground, rather than engage in a completely theoretical discussion," the source said.

The suspect is currently being interrogated by Sha'ar Binyamin police and is expected to be taken soon to the scene for reenactment of the incident, provided that the security situation in the area allows it.

The Palestinian demonstration was one of a string held over the last few days to protest the IDF operation in Gaza, which killed more than 100 people in two days.

Violent protests erupted throughout the day on Sunday, in West Bank communities around Jerusalem, as Palestinians in Atarot, Har Adar and Qalandia began throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at IDF troops in the region.

Three IDF troops and an Israeli civilian were lightly wounded across the West Bank on Sunday from Palestinian rock attacks.

Also on Sunday, IDF troops killed a 14-year-old Palestinian in Hebron, after he cut through the West Bank separation fence.

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      1.   Exactly 11:46  |  Bo 03/03/08
      2.   Haaretz` definitions for terrorists 12:17  |  MR 03/03/08
      3.   Jeepers guys 12:29  |  Colin Wright 03/03/08
      4.   Reply to # 3 Israel a democracy? 13:16  |  SJ 03/03/08
      5.   settlements 13:18  |  MB 03/03/08
      6.   if you weren`t there shut your trap 13:21  |  don 03/03/08
      7.   what to do with vicious anti-semites 13:33  |  Ilan 03/03/08
      8.   Same thing happened to Pinner 13:39  |  lisa 03/03/08
      9.   Jeepers, Colin 13:51  |  Joe Sittizen 03/03/08
      10.   peaceful protestors 13:52  |  Nerys 03/03/08
      11.   Armed civilians 13:53  |  smash 03/03/08
      12.   # 3 Colin Wright ....a question 13:58  |  Lynn 03/03/08
      13.   Do you know why? I know. 14:05  |  czech 03/03/08
      14.   Well, the bus should not have been there 14:20  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/03/08
      15.   why go for an walk 14:27  |  rm 03/03/08
      16.   Re: Haaretz` definitions for terrorists 14:36  |  Zi 03/03/08
      17.   He`s A Hero 14:45  |  Yishai Kohen 03/03/08
      18.   Israel & Palestine: Life & Death 14:47  |  Artie 03/03/08
      19.   remember the 2 soldiers lynched 14:51  |  george 03/03/08
      20.   Go back to Israel! 15:01  |  Paulo 03/03/08
      21.   Lynn #3 15:09  |  Bill 03/03/08
      22.   This would never have happened if the Romans would not have 15:09  |  Murray of Montreal 03/03/08
      23.   The Israeli squatter is a terrorist 15:13  |  POP 03/03/08
      24.   #12 Lynn, an answer.... 15:17  |  Johnboy 03/03/08
      25.   The man is a hero 15:22  |  Gili 03/03/08
      26.   Ilan on the lynch mentality 15:22  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/03/08
      27.   #16 Not illegal, disputed 15:25  |  Gili 03/03/08
      28.   Arrest the Jewish Villager 15:28  |  Abu Saif 03/03/08
      29.   To yaakov Sullivan, smash ,et al. 15:31  |  Elihu 03/03/08
      30.   Looks like the Israeli Squatter is the Terrorist here 15:32  |  POP 03/03/08
      31.   You are wrong czech 15:32  |  Dragan 03/03/08
      32.   Zi, but Israel Is Founded on Exceptionalism 15:32  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/03/08
      33.   palestinian holocaust 15:33  |  palestinian 03/03/08
      34.   Get out of Palestine,you rotters!You were given 56%land by the UN 15:40  |  lakshmi 03/03/08
      35.   Terror 15:49  |  jjvanka 03/03/08
      36.   Haaretz, definitions & sanity. 15:56  |  curious 03/03/08
      37.   Why are Pals still allowed in Israël ?? 15:58  |  maurice 03/03/08
      38.   TO #17...Savage Muslims want it all 16:02  |  SLAVO 03/03/08
      39.   To #14..Thats it? Thats your response to pure savagry? 16:05  |  spade 03/03/08
      40.   MURDERING PALESTINIANS IS ALWAYS KOSHER... WHATEVER 16:11  |  TripleJump 03/03/08
      41.   lakshmi 16:14  |  stu 03/03/08
      42.   INTENT ON KILLING 16:14  |  SSHJ 03/03/08
      43.   to #7 you idiot 16:16  |  me 03/03/08
      44.   GOOD MAN! LEARN FROM HIM, JEWS! 16:17  |  Dorit Doron 03/03/08
      45.   # 17 lakshmi...will you give the same advice 16:18  |  Lynn 03/03/08
      46.   The Judge and the Executioner 16:21  |  Danny 03/03/08
      47.   Hey lakshmi, guess where the settlers came from! 16:21  |  Joe Sittizen 03/03/08
      48.   # 13 czech.....I have heard the Russian Jews 16:21  |  Lynn 03/03/08
      49.   #17 racist to demand Jew-free land 16:26  |  Gili 03/03/08
      50.   the right stuff 16:35  |  Space 03/03/08
      51.   Terrorist murder in the name of Islam. 16:36  |  Jean Van Daem 03/03/08
      52.   Joe Sittizen on the original inhabitants 16:37  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/03/08
      53.   ALL arubs WANT TO KILL YOU JEWS & DESTROY ISRAEL, WHY DON`T YOU 16:37  |  MOSHE 03/03/08
      54.   Another scumbag walks 16:40  |  M.O. 03/03/08
      55.   Justified: THEY WOULD`VE LYNCHED HIM, it was time to shoot 16:43  |  David P 03/03/08
      56.   #17 lakshmi: You tell us, oh wisest woman! - We do as you ordered 16:45  |  PeaceLoving People 03/03/08
      57.   The two miluimniks in Ramallah should have reacted the same way 16:47  |  Zvika 03/03/08
      58.   #14 Sullivan, why do you keep calling them "occupied territories" 16:53  |  Manfred 03/03/08
      59.   Israeli Police: Israelis not allowed Self-Defense 17:02  |  Karen 03/03/08
      60.   stones 17:08  |  Shmuelshachor 03/03/08
      61.   czech you are wrong 17:11  |  Dragan 03/03/08
      62.   rm - or whoever 17:12  |  Patricia 03/03/08
      63.   Get out of Palestine you rotters! Give it back to thJewish people 17:21  |  Izzy 03/03/08
      64.   #17 lakshmi - The UN has given Israel nothing but trouble 17:22  |  Bo 03/03/08
      65.   I`m a former Russian Jew now living proudly in Israel 17:28  |  Vitaly 03/03/08
      66.   What Police? 17:37  |  Jimmie 03/03/08
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      68.   IDF investigation 17:39  |  Dave Duncan 03/03/08
      69.   17: Lakshmi, still incapable of the truth 17:40  |  David Teich 03/03/08
      70.   Rm from US, "Deliberately going for a walk is a provocation" 17:41  |  Johnny 03/03/08
      71.   Zi in London - have you started to get problems with police in UK 17:45  |  Johnny 03/03/08
      72.   The West Bank 17:45  |  JT 03/03/08
      73.   To #7,what to do... 17:45  |  Shmuelshachor 03/03/08
      74.   Nerys, # 10 17:45  |  Josh 03/03/08
      75.   Hey, Lakshmi, Arabs refused UN partition, not Jews 17:46  |  Benny 03/03/08
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      77.   sullivans insane arguement 18:06  |  SHIMON 03/03/08
      78.   Josh you mule - read 18 for you`re answer 18:08  |  Nerys 03/03/08
      79.   # 15 rm......... why go for a walk? 18:14  |  Lynn 03/03/08
      80.   MB #5 what gives the palestinians the right to lynch someone 18:17  |  terrornator 03/03/08
      81.   Dave Duncan....so, again I ask 18:19  |  Lynn 03/03/08
      82.   smash in kosovo,the palestinians don`t have a country,they 18:20  |  terrornator 03/03/08
      83.   Jaakov Sullivan,have you got your plane ticket to gaza yet,or 18:22  |  terrornator 03/03/08
      84.   no lakshmi,you and your haaretz israeli bashing posters are the 18:25  |  terrornator 03/03/08
      85.   There is no excuse for killing someone..... 18:26  |  Deborah 03/03/08
      86.   Should Hebron Palestinians shoot settler too? 18:38  |  El-Birawi 03/03/08
      87.   #23 and #25 18:49  |  Johanna 03/03/08
      88.   the man acted appropriately! 18:54  |  Joey 03/03/08
      89.   Response to MB (#5) 19:01  |  Lurker 03/03/08
      90.   Response to rm (#15) 19:03  |  Lurker 03/03/08
      91.   Where was the Mish when they were needed? 19:05  |  Gideon Reader 03/03/08
      92.   Terror 19:18  |  jjvanka 03/03/08
      93.   Stop the Arguing 19:22  |  sall 03/03/08
      94.   #23 and #25 19:46  |  Johanna 03/03/08
      95.   Stones can kill 19:58  |  Buich Er Belau 03/03/08
      96.   6. "if you weren`t there shut your trap" 20:01  |  bingbong 03/03/08
      97.   re #12 `#3 Colin Wright...` 20:02  |  Colin Wright 03/03/08
      98.   `Provided that the security situation allows it.` 20:51  |  SeikhelParents 03/03/08
      99.   THE LAST SENTENCE SAYS IT ALL!!! 21:16  |  AMERICAN 03/03/08
      100.   Buich Er Belau, so do bullets 21:27  |  Yaakov Sullivan 03/03/08
      101.   police slam IDF probe, yep, nothing like a unified country 21:48  |  newageblues 03/03/08
      102.   The police need to stop aiding and abetting terrorism 21:51  |  Gee 03/03/08
      103.   re #18 `Hey Lakhshmi` 22:08  |  Colin Wright 03/03/08
      104.   id shoot him too if there were 30 surrounding me as they threw 22:10  |  terrornator 03/03/08
      105.   hey jaakov,when you leaving for gaza,or was that just your big 22:12  |  terrornator 03/03/08
      106.   WHERE IS THE *DEAD* BODY 22:56  |  Joe 03/03/08
      107.   Why wasn`t criminal settler doused with gasoline and set alight 22:57  |  Yossi Cronenberg 03/03/08
      108.   if i have a gun, and u hit me with a rock..... 23:18  |  Sammy 03/03/08
      109.   # 31 SAll Can we make it a game show? 23:37  |  petra 03/03/08
      110.   jaakov,whens the bus leaving for gaza,or did you forget to get on 23:38  |  terrornator 03/03/08
      111.   jaakov,whens the bus leaving for gaza,or did you forget to get on 23:38  |  terrornator 03/03/08
      112.   Sall,finally someone with good insight 23:40  |  used car salesman 03/03/08
      113.   #3 Colin Wrong - Jeepers have you ever considered 00:25  |  * BEN JABO 04/03/08
      114.   #18 Can they prove their ancestry? 00:45  |  hala 04/03/08
      115.   #24 David Teich reaches for the Hebrew versions.... 04:22  |  Johnboy 04/03/08
      116.   #33 bingbong - you sound like U are on the bong 05:02  |  * BEN JABO 04/03/08
      117.   @ 20 to shmuelshachor in rio 06:50  |  eric 04/03/08
      118.   # 32 so can water buich er belau... 07:20  |  eric 04/03/08
      119.   #18 Joe sittizen 13:17  |  Harald 04/03/08
      120.   #117 Eric - NM 16:15  |  * BEN JABO 04/03/08
      121.   #117 Eric - Uzi`s were obsoleted years ago 18:07  |  * BEN JABO 04/03/08
      122.   As we see it from here... 18:16  |  jfc 04/03/08
      123.   Thank God you don`t represent the US, jfc 02:29  |  Polybios 05/03/08
      124.   #122 jfc - You`re partial to the Arabs 06:41  |  * BEN JABO 05/03/08
      125.   #122 jfc 06:43  |  John Williams 05/03/08
      126.   #102 Gee 06:49  |  John Williams 05/03/08
      127.   # 120 ben...do you realize 07:13  |  eric 05/03/08
      128.   # 122 to polybios... 07:29  |  eric 05/03/08
      129.   122: Hey, Floridian, learn how to use a ballot! 15:09  |  David Teich 05/03/08
      130.   #127 Eric - to correct you on two specific points 21:16  |  * BEN JABO 05/03/08
      131.   # 130 your "corrections" are spooky to read, ben... 04:47  |  eric 06/03/08
      132.   115: Ahh, JB`s back from running and to lying (2nd try) 13:58  |  David Teich 06/03/08
      133.   122: Hey, Floridian, learn how to use a ballot! (2nd try) 13:58  |  David Teich 06/03/08
      134.   #131 Eric - Spooky because they haunt you 03:03  |  * BEN JABO 08/03/08
      135.   # 134 no ben; spooky because you`re unstable 09:28  |  eric 09/03/08
      136.   #135 Eric - Veracity 16:11  |  * BEN JABO 09/03/08
      137.   # 136 LOOK BEN!; it`s a flying cat! 08:22  |  eric 10/03/08
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      139.   # 138 ben...i HAVE shown you...several times before 09:09  |  eric 11/03/08
      140.   131: Yes, eric, facts do scare you (5th try) 12:49  |  David Teich 11/03/08
      141.   # 140 you have no facts that scare, teich...(2nd try) 07:04  |  eric 14/03/08
      142.   141: Then why can`t you ever address them, eric? 16:28  |  David Teich 15/03/08
      143.   # 142 to david teich (third try) 03:40  |  eric 17/03/08
      144.   144: Notice eric sticks to theory, p1 19:59  |  David Teich 17/03/08
      145.   144: Notice eric sticks to theory, p2 20:10  |  David Teich 17/03/08
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