Israeli gunman kills three Palestinians in West Bank
By Amiram Barkat and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents, and AP
An Israeli Jew killed three people and wounded three others Wednesday afternoon, when he opened fire on a group of Palestinians in the industrial area of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh.
The man apparently snatched the weapon from a security guard in the industrial zone.
The gunman, from the West Bank settlement of Shvut Rahel, was arrested by Israeli security forces.
"It appears that an Israeli who resides locally grabbed a gun from a security man at the Shiloh industrial zone and opened fire on Palestinians, who may have been workers or passersby," an Israeli security source said.
This is the second attack by an Israeli Jew on Arabs in as many weeks.
At the start of August, an Israel Defense Forces soldier who had deserted from the army to protest the disengagement opened fire inside a bus in the northern town of Shfaram, killing four Israeli Arabs.
The attacker, Eden Natan Zada, was killed by a mob who surrounded the bus after the shooting.
תוקן על ידי - איןבעיה - 17/08/2005 17:51:55
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