An Israeli judge decided against bringing charges against Israeli soldiers who opened fire in March at a van carrying Palestinian workers from Israel to the West Bank, killing three of them. The van had overtaken a line of cars waiting to go through a checkpoint near Hebron and veered toward the roadblock. The soldiers then opened fire, thinking the van’s driver was trying to run them over. The incident, which provoked violent Palestinian demonstrations, was later found to be caused by the van’s accidentally going out of control.
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