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WORLD NEWSFriday 23 October 2015
Israeli man shot dead after being mistaken for attacker
TIA GOLDENBERG is set to meet with the Pal- Israeli border police check Palestinian’s identification cards at a checkpoint as they exit the Arab
Associated Press estinians this weekend. neighborhood of Issawiyeh in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. Israel has beefed up security
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Jew- Police spokesman Micky across the country, sending hundreds of soldiers to back up thousands of police officers. Police
ish Israeli man was shot and Rosenfeld said the shooting have erected concrete barriers and checkpoints at the entrance to Arab areas of east Jerusalem,
killed in a scuffle with Israeli of the Israeli man in Jerusa- where many of the attackers are from.
soldiers who suspected he lem late Wednesday oc-
was a Palestinian attack- curred after soldiers patrol- (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
er, police said Thursday, ling the area asked him to
in a reflection of the jittery show ID as he got off a bus. ferring to the Islamic State picions that he was a terror- a 28-year-old Jewish resi-
mood that has gripped Is- The man refused, scuffled
raelis amid a spate of near- with the soldiers and then militant group. ist,” Rosenfeld said. Police dent of Jerusalem, without
daily stabbings. attempted to seize one of
The shooting came as their weapons. A private
Prime Minister Benjamin Ne- security guard nearby shot
tanyahu was in Germany the man, and one soldier
for talks with U.S. Secretary also opened fire, police
of State John Kerry on how said. The man later died of
to restore calm. Kerry ex- his wounds.
pressed a “cautious mea- Police said the soldiers had
sure of optimism” follow- grown suspicious when the
ing the four-hour meeting man, speaking in Hebrew,
about proposals that could asked to see their IDs and
help defuse tensions. Kerry proclaimed, “I am ISIS,” re-
“The soldiers had high sus- later identified the man as providing further details.q
Syria:
US-led forces strike IS-controlled oil field
VIVIAN SALAMA lion per month for the Is- Beiji, home to Iraq’s largest
Associated Press lamic State group. “It was oil refinery. They were be-
BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S.-led very specific targets that ing supported by airstrikes.
coalition forces in Iraq and would result in long-term Iraqi forces said Tuesday
Syria carried out a large- incapacitation of their abil- that they had driven Is-
scale attack on Syria’s ity to sell oil, to get it out of lamic State militants out of
Omar oil field as part of its the ground and transport Beiji and were in full control
mission to target the Islamic it,” Filanowski said. The Is- of the town. But coalition
State group’s ability to gen- lamic State group seized officials said Thursday that
erate money, a coalition a number of oil refineries the mission has not been
spokesman said Thursday. and other infrastructure in completed. “Beiji city is
Operations officer Maj. Mi- Iraq and Syria as it sought contested,” Filanowski said.
chael Filanowski told jour- to generate revenue to “They control the road but
nalists in Baghdad that build a self-sufficient state. then the next phase of the
airstrikes late Wednesday The group currently holds operation will be to clear
struck IS-controlled oil refin- territory in just under a third the actual city.” Filanowski
eries, command and con- of Iraq and Syria, and co- added that much of the
trol centers and transporta- alition forces continue to area is littered with booby
tion nodes in the Omar oil launch airstrikes in support traps, and the militants
field near the town of Deir of allied ground forces in have staged a number
el-Zour. Coalition spokes- both countries. Coalition of counterattacks on ad-
man Col. Steven Warren officials said that Iraqi se- vancing Iraqi forces as they
said the attack hit 26 tar- curity forces, backed by look to control the town. He
gets, making it one of the the paramilitary Popular said that between 400 and
largest set of strikes since Mobilization Forces and 600 IS fighters are believed
launching the air cam- Iraqi federal police, con- to have been fighting in
paign last year. tinue to work to recapture Beiji — far less than the esti-
The refinery generates be- and clear the western city mated 600 to 1,000 fighters
tween $1.7 and $5.1 mil- of Ramadi and the city of in battling in Ramadi.q
