NABLUS: Israeli troops arrested two Palestinians overnight on suspicion of involvement in a clash that led to a settler shooting dead a Palestinian in the West Bank, officials said yesterday, reports AFP.
The settler opened fire after his car was surrounded and stoned by Palestinian protesters when he attempted to drive through their demonstration near a military checkpoint in the northern West Bank on Thursday. Muataz Bani Shemsay, 23, was killed and an Associated Press news agency photographer wounded before the army arrived and dispersed the Palestinians. Police said the settler was let go on Thursday after giving a statement and was not being investigated as a murder suspect.  "The mob almost lynched me, I looked death in the eyes," the settler said in a video recording distributed to the media.
Israeli troops arrested Yussef Derieh, an ambulance driver from the village of Aqraba, near the main northern West Bank city of Nablus, who veered his vehicle to the opposite lane and blocked the settler's car.