Posted on 12/22/2004 7:11:38 AM PST by anotherview
Dec. 22, 2004 14:05 | Updated Dec. 22, 2004 15:57
Security fence guard killed in shooting attack near Hebron
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS AND MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
An Israeli security guard was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon by suspected Palestinian assailants near the West Bank city of Hebron, rescue officials said.
The security guard was safeguarding construction of the security barrier going up by the Palestinian village of Idna east of Hebron.
The Fatah Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting.
According to reports, two men with pistols shot the security guard at close range at about 2 p.m. The attackers then took the guard's weapon.
The guard, who was critically wounded in the attack, was pronounced dead at the scene, rescue officials said.
Security forces imposed a curfew on the Idna area as soldiers searched the area for the two perpetrators. Security officials did not rule out the possibility that the terrorist fled in a waiting car.
At the site of the attack, soldiers found a homemade gun used by the attackers.
Officials said that other security guards at the site did not shoot at the attackers when their comrade was shot.
The shooting attack took place in the parking area for heavy construction vehicles.
The attack came one day after a 39-year-old Israeli woman was brutally murdered in a Moshav not far from the Green Line, in an attack police believe was also terror related.
But officials stress that there is no connection to the murder of the woman in Moshav Nahusha on Tuesday, saying that today's attack was more professional and planned.
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