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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211;  Fri Jan 7, 2011 5:30PM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc">The wife of Omar Kawasme holds his picture as she sits on his blood-stained bed where he was killed by Israeli troops on Friday.</div>
<div id="divLead">Thousands  of people have attended the funeral of a Palestinian man, who was  brutally shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank.</div>
<p>The 67-year-old Omar Kawasme was shot 13 times in the head while he  was sleeping in his home in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) in the early  hours of Friday.</p>
<p>The Israeli army has admitted that Kawasme was an innocent civilian  and that the troops mistook him for a Hamas supporter. Israeli soldiers  were searching the city to arrest six Hamas men, who were released from  jail by the Palestinian Authority on Thursday.</p>
<p>&#8220;They murdered him in cold blood with 13 bullets in the head without  even checking his identity. After they killed him, they asked for his  identity card,&#8221; Kawasme&#8217;s son told AFP.</p>
<p>Hamas has accused the Palestinian Authority of collaborating with  Israel in the killing. Five Palestinians were also arrested during the  pre-dawn operation.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hamas holds the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank responsible,  along with the occupation, for this crime,&#8221; Sami Abu Zuhri told a news  conference.</p>
<p>&#8220;We call on the Palestinian Authority to immediately stop political  arrests and to give the resistance a chance to protect the Palestinian  people in the West Bank,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Left with nine children, Kawasme&#8217;s wife, Sobheye, who was locked up  in another room, said the Israeli soldiers did not allow her to speak  and killed her husband as soon as they entered his room.</p>
<p>&#8220;About 60 armed soldiers broke into our house before dawn. I was  praying when they entered. One of the soldiers forcibly closed my mouth  with his hand while another went into my old and ill husband&#8217;s room and  shot him in the head until he was dead. Everything that happened was  simply an act of vengeance on Palestinian families,&#8221; she said in tears.</p>
<p>&#8220;My crippled son was in the house during the incident, he is in a  very rough mental state. I myself have yet to digest the events, how and  why it happened. Everything the soldiers said about my husband trying  to attack them or interrupt them was a lie &#8211; he was killed while he was  sleeping. I can barely stand on my own two feet, our economic situation  is very bad and I don&#8217;t know how I will deal with life after this  disaster which has fallen on our heads,&#8221; she added.</p>
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