Palestinian shot dead in vehicle near West Bank checkpoint

Gunfire at a passing vehicle killed a Palestinian man on Sunday in the occupied West Bank in what police and army officials said they suspect was a criminal incident.

Two people were lightly wounded in the attack.

Magen David Adom medics said a 35-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem was killed in the shooting near highway 443, a well-travelled road linking Jerusalem with the West Bank.

Police and military officials initially suspected the shooting was a criminal incident or part of a family feud. Later, Mickey Rosenfeld, the national police spokesman, said that "as far as we understand, a terrorist opened fire" on the road.

Rosenfeld says the gunmen were Palestinian aiming for an Israeli car.


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