Screen capture from video of Sumaya Mansour speaking with official Palestinian TV. (Twitter)
The wife of a Palestinian man shot dead by soldiers during what the IDF said was an attempted car-ramming has insisted she and her husband did not accelerate toward troops at a roadblock, and two eyewitnesses have backed up her claim that no soldiers were in front of their car when the shooting started, Haaretz reported Sunday.
Osama Mansour, 42, was killed last week as he drove his wife to their home in the West Bank town of Biddu. The couple passed through a temporary IDF roadblock that had been set up as a major security operation was underway in the area, but soldiers fired at the car, fatally wounding Mansour, a vegetable seller. His wife, Sumaya, a seamstress, was lightly injured.