(newspaper unidentified) · 10 December 2002
CP-2002-026
Israeli soldiers kill disabled Palestinian
By Steve Weizman, Associated Press, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM — Israeli troops shot and killed a mentally disabled Palestinian yesterday and arrested an alleged gunman accused of killing a 10-month-old Israeli girl last year in the West Bank city of Hebron… In yesterday’s violence, Israeli troops shot and killed a 28-year-old mentally disabled Palestinian, Basel al-Koa, at a military checkpoint near the West Bank town of Tulkarem. The army said soldiers opened fire when the man refused an order to halt and started running… Planning Minister Nabil Shaath said attacks on all Israeli civilians must stop, including those on Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. ‘Stopping targeting Israeli civilians is a step that needs to be implemented,’ Shaath said. The Palestinian Authority has condemned attacks on civilians in Israel but has said settlers and soldiers remain legitimate targets.”
Context added by this archive
The same Associated Press dispatch as the Star-Ledger, and the headline is the finding. Three papers here carried it. Two wrote Disabled Palestinian is shot dead and Mentally disabled Palestinian killed, both of which leave out who fired. This one writes it down. The masthead is not in the scan, so the paper is recorded as unidentified rather than guessed at.
Cite this item
"Israeli soldiers kill disabled Palestinian," (newspaper unidentified), 10 December 2002. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2002-026. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2002-026
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- Disabled Palestinian is shot deadThe Star-Ledger · 10 December 2002 · the same dispatch, carried by another paper
- Israel censoring news of Soviet immigrants(newspaper unidentified) · 1 January 1990 · the same newspaper
- Even the word 'Palestine' a matter of debate(newspaper unidentified) · 2 September 1982 · the same newspaper
- What Is ‘Palestine,’ Anyway?(newspaper unidentified) · 2 September 1982 · the same newspaper
- Don’t forget it’s an Israeli occupationThe Daily Press · 1 January 2002 · the same year
- Friendship of Palestinian, architect defies oddsThe Bismarck Tribune · 17 January 2002 · the same year
- Israel broadens Palestinian offensiveConcord Monitor · 1 April 2002 · the same year
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