Israeli is killed in West Bank - New York Times

Jerusalem - Palestinian police shot dead one Israeli dead and four injured Sunday beginning after Israelis surreptitiously visited a site sacred Jewish within a controlled area Palestinian, according to officials on both sides of.

The shooting occurred outside Joseph's Tomb in the city of Nablus, West Bank after three carloads of Israeli Jews visited religious site to pray without coordinating their move by the Israeli army. Twice a month of trips to the Tomb were organized with escort army for the past four years without incident.

Palestinian police detained Palestinian security officers of the shooting. The dead man was identified as Ben Yosef Livnat, an old father for 24 years, four of Jerusalem and the nephew of Limor Livnat, Minister of Culture and Sport of the Likud Party of Israel party. An aide to the Minister confirmed the identity.

After the fire, young Palestinians set small fires outside the Tomb. Israeli and Palestinian security officials extinguished their and restored order. An investigation on the events of the day was underway.

The Palestinian Governor of Nablus, Jibril el-Bakri, said in the Radio Israel that the shooting was the result of a lack of coordination between the faithful and the Israeli army. He said that the Palestinian police who was on a regular patrol shot a warning in the air before shooting cars that did not stop. He noted that the shooting was a mistake and that the police officers who fired their rifles were interviewed.

David Ha'Ivri, a spokesman for the Jewish settler who is involved in the coordination of visits to the tomb of Joseph with the Israeli army, said that some faithful refuse to visit in this manner and to their own stealthily.

"We do not endorse that," he said. "We call on people to be responsible."

Most of those who stealthily in the Breslov Hassidic sect members who live in Jerusalem, said he and other.

A spokesman for the Israeli Magen David Adom rescue service said that the cars had been taken on after visit to the Tomb. He said that, apart from Mr. Livnat, who died of a bullet in the head, two others in a second car were evacuated by helicopter. The other two were slightly injured and treated on the spot.

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1 Israeli killed, 2 wounded in West Bank shooting

Palestinians shot and killed one Israeli and two others wounded Sunday beginning near tomb of Joseph, a Jewish holy site in the Palestinian city of Nablus, Israeli military and rescue services said.

The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately obvious. An elderly man of about 30 years reaches an Israeli base outside Nablus before dying of his injuries, the army and rescue services said.

Two others, about 20 and 17, reached a Jewish settlement nearby with gunshot wounds and was taken to the hospital.

Jewish worshippers often enter Nablus with a military escort located within an area to pray on the small building traditionally identified as the tomb of the biblical Patriarch, held the Palestinian. These visits are coordinated with the Palestinian security forces. Visit the Israelis Friday, however, seems to have not been coordinated with each side.

Israel Army Radio reported that the faithful identified as Palestinian police snipers.

Jibril al-Bakri, the Palestinian Governor of Nablus, said the Palestinian Authority "studied the incident internally."

A senior Palestinian official said police Palestinians seem to have been involved in the shooting. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

The Palestinian Authority governs parts of the West Bank under the control of overall security to Israel.

Nablus moved from Israeli to Palestinian control in the 1990s in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, but Israel retained control on the building of the Tomb. In 2000, after deadly fighting autour Tomb, Israel military torn off and handed over control to the Palestinians. Later, a mob ransacked and torched the building.

The tomb was restored later. Recent years, through the improvement of the conditions of security in the West Bank and reinforced cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian security forces, Jewish worshippers have travelled to the grave in organized convoys.

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