Palestinian police intentionally killed a Israeli worshipper who died last month near the West Bank city of Nablus, the Israeli Chief of the General Staff Benny Gantz said Sunday, dpa reported.
"The (Palestinian) officers fired deliberately and with intention to harm the worshippers who arrived at Joseph's Tomb," Gantz said after concluding a military investigation on the incident.
Initial evidence appeared to indicate the death was a misunderstanding during an unauthorised trip to the site.
The shooting took place on April 24 when a three-vehicle convoy of a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews was at the shrine of Joseph's Tomb, near Nablus.
Jews are allowed access during one coordinated monthly midnight visit, but ultra-Orthodox worshippers often sneak into the Tomb to pray without prior notification to Palestinian authorities - as was the case in this shooting.
A 25 year-old men - nephew of the Israeli minister of Culture and Sport Limor Livnat - died and four others were wounded.
The place of the shooting is believed by Jews to be the final resting place of the Biblical Patriarch Joseph. It is inside the Palestinian territories, and under Palestinian control.
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