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Palestinian shot to death at abandoned israeli base Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/12714002.htm http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/12714002.htm Posted on Thu, Sep. 22, 2005 Palestinian man shot to death at base RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM - Israeli soldiers shot and killed an unarmed, 19-year-old Palestinian man Thursday who entered an aging military base in the northern West Bank hours before the army vacated it, Palestinian security officials said. Allah Khamtouni and nine other Palestinians went into the Dotan base near the Palestinian town of Jenin mistakenly thinking it already had been abandoned, Palestinian officials said. Israeli Col. Shmulik Kalmi said Khamtouni ran into the base with a group of people. Soldiers fired warning shots in the air, but the infiltrators did not stop, he said. Fearing the Palestinians might have had an explosives belt, the soldiers fired at Khamtouni's legs, but he bent down as they fired, was hit in the shoulder and died, Kalmi said. Both the Israeli army and the Palestinians said Khamtouni was unarmed. Late Thursday afternoon, the last troops left Dotan and Palestinians flooded in, grabbing what debris and construction materials they could, before Palestinian police opened fire on the scavengers, wounding three in the legs, witnesses said. The rundown base was retained in service as a staging post as part of Israel's forced evacuation last month of the nearby Homesh and Sanur settlements. Settlers evacuated two other settlements voluntarily. The Dotan incident came a day after Israel's domestic security chief, Yuval Diskin, warned that Palestinian militant activity in the West Bank was likely to increase in the wake of Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip. Diskin said Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas did not have the ability to control armed Palestinian groups following the withdrawal from Gaza and four settlements in the northern West Bank. Also Thursday, an Israeli court convicted Abbas Sayad, the commander of the Hamas military wing in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, of masterminding a March 2002 suicide bombing that killed 29 people at a Passover holiday meal at the Park Hotel in the Israeli resort town of Netanya.

Attacks on jewish gaza settlements after israeli raid First suicide attack since gaza withdrawal Four dead in gaza air strike { September 24 2005 } Hezbollah fires on israel as settlers protest evacuation Israel arrests group smuggling terrorists from gaza Israel kills 5 in west bank threatening peace process { August 26 2005 } Israel troops admit to revenge murders Israel uses palestinians as human shields { October 6 2005 } Israeli jets hit militant base in lebanon Israeli missiles fired at car { July 17 2005 } Israeli riot police storm jews in gaza synagogues Israelis evaluating gaza jews [jpg] Jewish soldiers opens fire on bus kills 4 Palestinian shot to death at abandoned israeli base Palestinian used as shield [jpg] Suicide attack at israeli shopping center wounds 40 Suicide bomb kills at least 5 in israel { December 5 2005 } Violence complicates palestinian elections { December 14 2005 } Files Listed: 18

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