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Hours after Israeli soldiers shot and killed Osama Mansour at a temporary checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, the military announced that it had thwarted a car-ramming attack but the facts didn't seem to add up. By all accounts, Mansour had initially stopped his car when ordered to do so. His wife, the mother…
Joseph Krauss April 22, 2021 - 11:26 PM
JERUSALEM - Hours after Israeli soldiers shot and killed Osama Mansour at a temporary checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, the military announced that it had thwarted a car-ramming attack â but the facts didn t seem to add up.
By all accounts, Mansour had initially stopped his car when ordered to do so. His wife, the mother of his five children, was sitting in the passenger seat. And after the soldiers sprayed the vehicle with gunfire, killing him and wounding her, they declined to arrest her as an accomplice.
Witnesses say the soldiers killed Mansour for no apparent reason, part of what rights groups say is a pattern of fatal shootings of Palestinians by Israeli forces under questionable circumstances. The debate over the soldiers conduct echoes that over the high-profile police killings of Black Americans in the United States.
Shooting revives criticism of Israel s use of deadly force
by Joseph Krauss, The Associated Press
Posted Apr 23, 2021 2:26 am EDT
Last Updated Apr 23, 2021 at 2:28 am EDT
JERUSALEM Hours after Israeli soldiers shot and killed Osama Mansour at a temporary checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, the military announced that it had thwarted a car-ramming attack but the facts didn’t seem to add up.
By all accounts, Mansour had initially stopped his car when ordered to do so. His wife, the mother of his five children, was sitting in the passenger seat. And after the soldiers sprayed the vehicle with gunfire, killing him and wounding her, they declined to arrest her as an accomplice.
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