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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.
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Apr. 11, 2021
Two eyewitnesses have denied the army’s claim that a Palestinian driver who was killed by soldiers south of Ramallah Tuesday had accelerated toward the soldiers as if he were planning to run them over.
The driver’s wife, who was in the car and was wounded by the gunfire, also refuted the soldiers’ story. All three witnesses said there were no soldiers in the path of the car.
The Israel Defense Forces said Osama Mansour was trying to run over soldiers at a checkpoint, adding that their car accelerated toward the soldiers in a way that endangered their lives.
Israeli troops kill Palestinian driver in disputed incident World News Reuters Staff RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian motorist who they said tried to ram them at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday - an account disputed by his wife, who was with him in the car.
The daughter of Palestinian Osama Mansour is comforted as she mourns during her father s funeral in Biddu village, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
A relative of Palestinian Osama Mansour mourns during his funeral in Biddu village, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
HeadlineApr 07, 2021
In the occupied West Bank, mourners attended the funeral of Osama Mansour, a 42-year-old Palestinian man who was killed by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint Tuesday. Soldiers say Mansour tried to ram his vehicle into them, but his wife, who was also in the car and sustained bullet fragment wounds, disputes the claim.
Sumaya Mansour: “They told us to switch off the car and park it. We switched it off and parked there. He only asked us where we are coming from and where we are going. That was it. Then he told us to go, leave. We switched the car on and left. And within seconds, four soldiers started shooting at us from behind.”