Israeli president seeks inquiry into ‘trigger-happy’ army after killings
The violence also appeared to cloud prospects for the renewal of Israeli-Palestinian security talks on initial steps toward a truce in nearly two years of bloodshed. In what Palestinians described as the killing of innocent quarry workers, Israeli soldiers outside the West Bank city of Hebron shot dead four Palestinians yesterday.
An army spokesman said soldiers opened fire at the men after they had broken into a fenced-in agricultural area run by Jewish settlers, fearing a potential attack. The army said the men were carrying axes, clubs and wirecutters. Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers entered Jenin refugee camp and killed Abdel-Kareem al-Saadeh after gunmen fired at them, Palestinian sources said. The Islamic
