Shepherd shot dead in West Bank
bbc world news
28-Sep-2008 (2 comments)

A Palestinian shepherd has been shot dead near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian officials accused Jewish settlers of pursuing Yahya Minya, 18, from the village of Aqraba, and shooting him a number of times.

Israeli police said they were looking into the incident, which comes amid a rise violence by hardline settlers.

Israel's defence minister later called for a tougher stance to be taken against people who attack Palestinians.

Speaking at Sunday's cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Ehud Barak said such offenders were rarely prosecuted for their actions.

The majority of those who were brought before legal authorities were only given light penalties, he added.

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Mehdi Mazloom

He was killed by

by Mehdi Mazloom on Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:09 AM PDT

The shapapered was killed with unexploded grande left if the field. Tragic but an unfortunate accident.

Last update - 13:39 29/09/2008




Israel Police: Settlers were not behind Palestinian teen's death


By Jonathan Lis, Avi Issacharoff, Nadav Shragai, Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents, and The Associated Press

Tags: Palestinians, Israel News 


Israel
Police on Monday said a Palestinian shepherd found dead in the West
Bank late Saturday was killed in an accidental explosion, not by
settlers.

Yihya Atta Bani Minya, 18, had been missing from his hometown of
Akrabeh since Saturday afternoon. He was found dead near Gitit, in the
Jordan Valley.

Neighbors and relatives of the teenager had accused extremist
settlers of killing him, and police looked into that possibility. But
spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said forensics experts determined the
shepherd was killed after he picked up an unexploded shell that
detonated in his hands.


 

Rosenfeld said the shepherd's body suffered shrapnel wounds, and there were no signs the shepherd was shot.

Jordan Valley settlers on Sunday rejected the claim that Minya was
killed by one of them, and Dubi Tal, head of the Jordan Valley Regional
Council, said the settlers were cooperating with the police
investigation.

According to Tal, Palestinian accusations that local settlers
murdered the shepherd were intended to de-legitimize Jewish settlement
in the Jordan Valley.

"It's nice that they've also turned us into 'settlers' and added us
to the band of assassins," Tal said. "But inquiries we conducted in our
communities revealed that no one heard any shots and no one knows
anything about the incident."

There has been a recent spike in settler attacks on Palestinians,
and the shepherd's death had raised fears of new settler violence.


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Farhad Kashani

Or better yet, they can

by Farhad Kashani on Mon Sep 29, 2008 05:51 AM PDT

Or better yet, they can learn from your beloved Islamic regime's fire squads when they are executing Iranian people.


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