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<p>Maan News Agency | Nov 11, 2011</p>
<p>JERUSALEM (AFP) &#8212; Israeli soldiers shot dead a settler and wounded two others when they opened fire on a car at a roadblock south of Hebron on Friday, the army said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Soldiers who had been warned of a suspicious vehicle opened fire, killing one Israeli and wounding two others,&#8221; a military spokesman told AFP.</p>
<p>The car, driving from the Haggay settlement towards Hebron, had failed to stop at a barrier specially erected to intercept it following an alert, the spokesman said.</p>
<p>The settler was among the founders of nearby Otniel settlement, its spokesman, Yehuda Glick, told Israel&#8217;s Army Radio. Glick said that the settler and the two others in his car were driving to early morning prayers in Hebron.</p>
<p>While the army was treating the casualties at the scene, a Palestinian truck passing by lightly wounded a soldier but, according to the spokesman, the military believes the act was not intentional.</p>
<p>The army has opened a probe into Friday&#8217;s incident.</p>
<p>A representative of the soldiers&#8217; division told reporters, Israeli daily Haaretz reported, that the forces investigating a suspicious vehicle &#8220;did not manage to set up a checkpoint in time, and so they signaled to the vehicle to stop. The vehicle did not stop and an IDF soldier fired eight shots at it&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We will investigate why the soldiers opened fire, because according to instructions on opening fire, soldiers are not supposed to shoot at a moving vehicle.&#8221;</p>
<p>Palestinians have been the victims of similar shootings in the past, accusing Israeli soldiers of opening fire without warning on vehicles they consider suspect.</p>
<p>In Jan. 2010, four Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces in separate incidents at checkpoints in the West Bank.</p>
<p>Some 500,000 Israelis currently live in illegal settlements dotted throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which Israel has occupied since a 1967 war.</p>
<p>Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s inner cabinet decided to speed up construction of Jewish settlements in annexed East Jerusalem and elsewhere in the West Bank, a day after the UN cultural organization UNESCO accepted Palestine as a full member.</p>
<p><strong> Reuters and Ma&#8217;an staff contributed to this report </strong></p>
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