Officer suspected of shooting Naalin boy to death suspended

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Border Guard officer who allegedly shot Ahmed Moussa in head during ant-fence rally in West Bank village placed under house arrest, suspended from all operational activities pending investigation

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3577202,00.html

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"A Border Guard officer suspected of killing of an 11-year-old Palestinian boy during an anti-fence rally held in Naalin last week has been placed under house arrest and suspended from all operational activities until the conclusion of the investigation against him, Ynet learned on Sunday.

Police said the suspect was arrested last week following an investigation launched by Brigadier-General Shlomi Even-Paz, who heads the Border Guard Command in Judea and Samaria. The officer was interrogated and then placed under five-day house arrest over the weekend, police said.

According to Naalin’s Anti-Fence Committee, Ahmed Moussa was shot by a Border Guard officer from 30 meters (about 98 feet) away while he was sitting with friends under an olive tree near the security fence's construction site in the West Bank village.

Committee member Ibrahim Khawaja told Ynet that the slain boy's friends said an Israeli jeep, apparently belonging to the Border Guard, suddenly pulled up in front of them, at which point one of the officers stepped out of the vehicle and opened fire towards the group, hitting Moussa in the head.

The boy died of his wounds a short while later. Palestinian officials said on Wednesday that an autopsy performed by Palestinian forensic doctors indicated that Moussa was shot by live fire."