'Several settlers fired in mosque'
The first Palestinian to testify at the Hebron massacre inquiry said several settlers and soldiers opened fire in the mosque, AFP reports from Jerusalem. 'I saw a uniformed settler enter,' Youssri Mahmud al-Jamal said. 'He put on ear-protectors and then fired. Twenty seconds later I heard shots coming from another spot, but I don't know who was firing.' The Israeli army has said a settler, Baruch Goldstein, acted alone, and that soldiers only fired in the air.
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