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Octogenarian who shot home intruders won’t be charged
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Justice Ministry says it will not charge an octogenarian who shot to death a Palestinian man who broke into his home last month.
The ministry says it has closed the case against the unnamed man, 80, for lack of guilt, after he shot two Palestinian would-be robbers who broke into his home in the rural community Beit Yitzhak, near Netanya.
The man is reportedly a Holocaust survivor.
A statement from the ministry says the two threatened the man with a pickaxe and scalpel after he came upon them after they broke into his home. It says he shot the two in self defense.
Suleiman Shaluf was killed and a second man with him was injured by the gunfire. Both were from Tulkarem.
Shaluf’s family had denied he was robbing the home.
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