A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank, witnesses and activists said. Al Jazeera, 14 May 2010 The settler opened fire after Palestinian youths threw stones at his car travelling along Route 60 in Mazra'a al-Sharqia, east of Ramallah. The Popular Struggle Co-ordination Committee activist group said that Aysar al-Zaben was not involved in the stone throwing, but was tending his family's land when he was shot. Israeli police said that the killing was being investigated, while the Israeli military stressed that it was not involved in the incident during which "shots were fired after stones were thrown at an Israeli car". read more
"According to his uncle, his lifeless body was found lying face down on the ground with a bullet hole in his back," the group said in a statement.
Route 60, which runs from Beersheba to Nazareth and connects a number of Israeli settlements, is closed to Palestinians in areas of the West Bank. It has seen a number of protests against the restrictions imposed on Palestinians by Israel.
