The Department of Internal Police Investigations says it questioned a police officer in connection to the shooting of two Israelis during a settler rampage in the West Bank last night.
A spokeswoman for the agency says a team from the department “arrived last night at the scene of the shooting incident in Samaria, in which two civilians were injured, and began an investigation.”
The incident took place as settlers set fire to homes and vehicles in the adjacent Palestinian villages of Jinsafut and al-Funduq.
The circumstances of their injury are still under investigation, though the Kan public broadcaster reports that a police officer shot two men in their 20s near the West Bank outpost of Ramat Gilad after they attacked him.
The officer under investigation has been released to house arrest until Friday and barred from all police stations and other facilities for eight days, says the spokeswoman. He is prohibited from contacting those involved in the incident.
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