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Four others injured in shooting after Jewish worshippers entered Joseph's tomb in Nablus without Palestinian permission.
A Palestinian police officer shot dead an Israeli man and wounded four other people after they entered a holy site in the West Bank without permission, the Israeli military said.
The group of Jewish worshippers were shot at Joseph's tomb, which some Jews believe to be the burial place of the biblical patriarch, in the Palestinian city of Nablus.
The man killed, in his mid-20s, was a nephew of Limor Livnat, a cabinet member with Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud party, officials said.
The military said it had been notified by Palestinian officials that the civilians were shot by a policeman "who, after identifying suspicious movements, fired in their direction". It said Israeli and Palestinian security officials would meet to investigate the shooting.
The governor of Nablus, Jibreen al-Bakri, said the group of Israelis had entered the area "without co-ordinating it with the Palestinian Authority, as is the understanding with Israel".
He said: "We have detained the forces responsible for securing the area and are investigating what happened."
The Israeli defence minister, Ehud Barak, said a lack of co-ordination did not justify the shooting and called on the Palestinian Authority to "take all necessary measures" against those responsible.
It was the first reported fatal attack on Israelis in the West Bank since the killing of five family members last month in the settlement of Itamar in a nearby area in the central West Bank.
GUARDIAN
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