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Article: Palestinian Shot Dead After Crash Israel Labels a Terrorist Attack.
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- Israel Faxx
- Article date:
- March 6, 2009
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By VOA News & IsraelNationalNews.com
A Palestinian driver was shot dead in Jerusalem after allegedly slamming his tractor into a police car and a bus. The killing happened as tensions flare over Israel's planned demolition of Arab homes in East Jerusalem and a spate of new violence in Gaza.
It was a scene of chaos on Jerusalem's busy Menachim Begin Highway in the moments after police said the Palestinian driver of a large construction vehicle smashed the front-end loader into a police car and a bus.
An Israeli cab driver told Israel Radio he pulled a gun and opened fire on the Palestinian. He said he saw a terrorist act, and saw the police car ...