Israel soldier abducted and killed in West Bank

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

21 September 2013 Last updated at 16:59 GMT

Israel soldier abducted and killed in West Bank

An Israeli soldier has been abducted and killed by a Palestinian man in the northern West Bank, Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency says.

The soldier was seized on Friday and his body found near the town of Qalqiliya on Saturday, it said.

A suspect - who Shin Bet said worked with the soldier - has been arrested.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24188812

[Mosby]

1. BBC (and Reuters) coverage of this horrible incident sucks big time

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They can't even be bothered to report the victims name and age.




Sergeant Tomer Hazan


IDF soldier Tomer Hazan, 20, kidnapped and killed in West Bank

http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-soldier-kidnapped-killed-near-qalqilya/

[delrem]

2. Well, y'know,

BBC and Reuters etc. aren't all that shit hot about reporting murders of Palestinians at the hands of the IDF, either.

Consider in contrast the enormous publicity given to the plight of Gilad Shilat, compared to the thousands of Palestinians captured by the Israelis. That seemed to be an excessive imbalance of reportage, if I'm allowed to make a ridiculous understatement.

I understand: a death is a death and all are equal. This was bad. The whole situation is bad.

[oberliner]

3. Here is the article from Al Jazeera

Excerpt:

Twenty-year-old Sgt. Tomer Hazan was reported missing late on Friday and Israeli forces began looking for him.

The search led the troops to Nidal Amar, a 42-year-old Palestinian from Beit Amin, a village near the city of Qalqiliya in the northern West Bank.

Amar told Israel's internal security service Shin Bet that he had killed the soldier, whom he knew because he worked together with him at a restaurant in the coastal city of Bat Yam in central Israel, the agency said.

Amar recounted how he had picked up the soldier in a taxi on Friday after convincing him to accept a ride. After talking the soldier into joining him, he took the Israeli to an open field, killed him and hid his body in a well.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/09/20139211358825608.html