The shooting occurred outside tomb of Joseph in the city of Nablus, West Bank after three carloads of Jewish religious Israelis visited the site to pray without coordinating their plans by the Israeli army. Twice a month of trips to the Tomb were organized with escort army for the past four years without incident.
Responsible for Palestinian security, said that they were Palestinian police interrogation which fired their weapons during the episode. The dead man was identified as Ben Yossef Livnat, an old father for 24 years from four of Jerusalem and the nephew of Limor Livnat, the Minister of culture and sport of the Party of the Likud in Israel. Mr. Livnat grew up in a village near Nablus, where his parents still live.
After the shooting, Palestinian youths light outside the Tomb. Israeli and Palestinian security officials extinguished their. Later, at a funeral for Mr. Livnat procession that began in the colony nearby, dozens of settlers masked Israelis attacked Palestinians on the road, breaking their cars and injuring a boy.
The procession ended at a grave on the Mount of olives in Jerusalem where Ms. Livnat, Minister, and the aunt of man dead, called his killing "cold-blooded murder."
A statement by the Minister of defence, Ehud Barak, who is responsible for Israeli security in the West Bank, has also used the term "murder", adding, "no coordination failure cannot justify an event of this kind and shoot innocent people.". Mr. Barak instructed the army to study and demanded that the Palestinians to do the same and take all necessary measures against those who fired.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the killing as well.
The Palestinian Governor of Nablus, Jibril al-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 police Palestinian officers who were on a regular patrol shot a warning in the air before shooting cars. He noted that the shooting was a mistake.
A spokesman for the army Israeli said the day that Israeli and Palestinian security officials had met and exchanged what they knew and were continuing their investigations.
The Palestinians, said, accused the Israelis faithful of having thrown rocks at the police before the beginning of the shooting.
David Ha'Ivri, a Jewish settler spokesman who is involved in the coordination of visits to the tomb of Joseph with the Israeli army said some believers refused to visit in this manner and sneaked into their own.
"We do not endorse that," said Mr. Ha'Ivri. "We call on people to be responsible." He added that visits organised in the Tomb were nevertheless still too scarce to allow all those who wish to go. Most of those who stealthily in the Breslov Hassidic sect members who live in Jerusalem, said he and other.
The military spokesman said on the Jewish holidays - it's now the Passover - it was not uncommon that some Jews piles into the Holy places under Palestinian control. If you're surprised by the Palestinians, they are almost always given to Israelis without violence, he said.
Many Jews believe that the tomb of Joseph is the final burial of the son of Jacob, the biblical Patriarch.
A spokesman for the Israeli rescue service Magen David Adom, 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. Others were slightly injured and treated on the spot.
