A Palestinian lawyer was killed yesterday in Nablus on the sidelines of operations by Israeli forces who say they are pursuing in the occupied West Bank suspects linked to recent attacks in Tel Aviv.
Mohammad Hassan Mohammad Assaf, 34 years old, died when he was shot in the chest by the Israeli occupation army during an attack in the town of Nablus, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Eyewitnesses said that Assaf was standing on the side of the road when he was hit by an Israeli soldier's bullet. He had just taken his nephews to school nearby, and had stopped on the side of the main road near Joseph's Tomb, a Jewish shrine where Israel was carrying out repair work today after Palestinians vandalized it.
Mohammad Assaf was a strong supporter of his people, said the Committee for Resistance to Settlement and the Wall, an entity of the Palestinian Authority, for which he worked.
An official from the PLO's anti-settlement unit said Assaf had stopped on the side of the road to watch events unfold when riots broke out in the area.
An army statement in connection with operations in the West Bank said yesterday that an armed suspect was shot near Nablus. It was unclear whether he was referring to Assaf.
Later, in a separate incident, Israeli soldiers killed a 14-year-old Palestinian near Bethlehem. The army said the teenager had thrown a Molotov cocktail bomb at the soldiers, who used fire to stop the immediate threat.
[/P][BR][BR]The Israeli army has cordoned off the area around the grave while repair work is underway.
The army said hundreds of Palestinians threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the soldiers, who responded with live fire and imposed riot control measures.
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