Palestinian Worker Shot Dead By Israeli Occupation Policeman Near Jerusalem

Monday October 04, 2010 11:34 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

A Palestinian laborer was shot and killed on Monday at dawn by an Israeli occupation government policeman, who reportedly shot him at point blank in occupied East Jerusalem. The policeman was placed under house arrest for five days.

Ezzuddin Saleh Al-Kawazba, 36, was trying to cross through some barbed wires in Al Z’ayyim area north east of Jerusalem, in order to seek work in Jerusalem when an Israeli policeman caught him and shot him at point blank, witnesses say.

The workers who were with Al-Kawazba denied police reports claiming that he attempted to escape, and said that they saw a policeman pointing his gun at the victim at point blank before he fired several round at him.

His cousin, Salah Al-Kawazba, said that around 2:30 on Monday at dawn, he, the victim and several other workers from the Hebron area managed to climb the Wall in Al-Za’aim and jumped onto the other side of the wall before border policemen noticed them and started chasing them.

“Ezzuddin was approximately 20 meters behind me, I asked him to rush but he was slow due to his weight, and the soldiers were approaching us”, Salah said, “I then saw a soldier approaching Ezzuddin before pointing his gun at him, at point blank, at fired several rounds”.

“I went back towards him and dozens of other workers followed me, the soldiers then surrounded us and started kicking and beating us”, he added, “later on, I saw them placing his body in a black bag and dragged it away”.

Ezzuddin and the rest of the workers were then detained and were let go near Al-'Aizariya town, in East Jerusalem. His brother, Hasan, was kidnapped and was taken to an unknown destination.

The Israeli police claimed that the worker was killed by accident as “one round was accidentally discharged while the policemen were chasing some 15 workers who jumped over a wall located near the main road that leads to Ma'aleh Adumim settlement” .

The police claimed that two border policemen chased the workers and one of them managed to grab one of the workers “who then tried to snatch the policeman’s weapon”.

“A scuffle took place and a round was accidentally discharged”, the police report claimed.

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, stated in a report published last August that the Israeli army does not question the soldiers in most cases where similar incidents took place.

B’Tselem said that this policy gives the soldiers and officers the chance to violate the law.

It also reported that only 23 investigations were conducted in the period between 2006 and 2009, during this period, the organization recorded 148 similar incidents that led to the death of 288 civilians.

IOF soldiers shoot and kill another Palestinian worker

[ 04/10/2010 - 10:58 AM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)--

A Palestinian worker from Al-Khalil was shot and killed on Monday at the hands of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in the second such incident in the past 24 hours.

Eyewitnesses said that IOF troops chased Shehada Hasan while on his way to work south of Al-Khalil and fired at him leading to his instant death.

Hasan is the second worker to be killed at the hands of the occupation soldiers in less than 24 hours. Israeli border policemen killed Ezzeddin Al-Kawazbe on Sunday near the separation wall while attempting to enter occupied Jerusalem to work.

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