A Palestinian police officer was assassinated Sunday by Israeli troops in the flashpoint city of Hebron.
Witnesses told the Palestinian news agency, WAFA, that the occupation troops opened fire at Nedal Fakhoury while he was in his car.
Fakhoury, an officer in the preventive security department, was shot in the head and the shoulder, they said.
The officer was the third to be killed Sunday in the West Bank.
Two Palestinian workers were killed and four others wounded when they were fired upon by the occupation troops in the northern city of Nablus in the West Bank, as they reportedly tried to sneak into Israel.
Husni Abu Leil, 19, from the Balata Palestinian refugee camp and Khalil Sarafandi, 50, from the nearby Askar camp died when the soldiers opened fire on two cars carrying Palestinian workers, a Palestinian hospital source told AFP. Three others were slightly wounded, the source said.
They were taken to the hospital at Tulkarem after being shot near the neighboring village of Attara.
The incident came after a fragile ceasefire had been announced Wednesday by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
But the ceasefire was badly shaken Saturday, as three Palestinians were shot dead and more than 140 wounded after thousands of angry protestors and stone-throwers continued to mark their year-long uprising against Israel.
The deaths on Sunday raise the toll for the Palestinian uprising, which erupted last September 28, to 840, including 648 Palestinians and 169 Israelis – Albawaba.com
