Two passengers in the car were wounded.
The shooting was first reported around 10:30 Sunday night, to the effect that an Israeli-Arab had been shot in his car north of Ramallah. Two versions of the incident switched back and forth throughout the night. One stated that because his car sported a yellow license plate, signaling that he was an Israeli, the terrorists mistook him for a Jew and therefore shot at him. The second version was that he was the victim of an Arab squabble between families.
This morning, however, reports are that the IDF and police are increasingly tending to believe that the murder was terrorist in nature.
The victim, Marwan Shwiki, 36, of the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood Abu Tor, was shot as he drove east between the Ofer army base and the Atarot Junction. Preliminary investigation shows that the terrorists prepared an ambush, waited for a car with Israeli license plates, and opened fire.
Shwiki is the 21st fatality of Palestinian terrorism this year, and the 41st since the expulsion from Gaza last year. Among the others murdered this year were 11 victims of a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in April; four who were murdered when a suicide bomber dressed as a religious Jew blew himself up when he got into a car that offered him a ride; two Bedouins who were killed when a Kassam rocket blew up upon them; and others.
The shooting was first reported around 10:30 Sunday night, to the effect that an Israeli-Arab had been shot in his car north of Ramallah. Two versions of the incident switched back and forth throughout the night. One stated that because his car sported a yellow license plate, signaling that he was an Israeli, the terrorists mistook him for a Jew and therefore shot at him. The second version was that he was the victim of an Arab squabble between families.
This morning, however, reports are that the IDF and police are increasingly tending to believe that the murder was terrorist in nature.
The victim, Marwan Shwiki, 36, of the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood Abu Tor, was shot as he drove east between the Ofer army base and the Atarot Junction. Preliminary investigation shows that the terrorists prepared an ambush, waited for a car with Israeli license plates, and opened fire.
Shwiki is the 21st fatality of Palestinian terrorism this year, and the 41st since the expulsion from Gaza last year. Among the others murdered this year were 11 victims of a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in April; four who were murdered when a suicide bomber dressed as a religious Jew blew himself up when he got into a car that offered him a ride; two Bedouins who were killed when a Kassam rocket blew up upon them; and others.