A 20-year-old French-Israeli soldier has been killed by “friendly fire” in the northern occupied West Bank, the Israeli military announced on Tuesday. The French embassy in Tel-Aviv indicated that Natan Fitoussi was French. He came to Israel from France in 2014 with his family, said an official from the city hall of the western Israeli city of Netanya, where he resided.
On Monday night, he was killed by Israeli army fire near the Palestinian city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank, the army said, without initially detailing the circumstances of the incident.
Posthumously promoted to First Sergeant
She had reported a shooting near Tulkarem on Monday night, before retracting and indicating to review the incident, without giving further details. On Tuesday night, the Israeli army presented the conclusions of its “preliminary investigation” into this case.
“Sergeant Natan Fitoussi left the guardhouse and upon his return another soldier identified him as a suspect. Following an error in identification, the soldier shot him,” the Israeli army report reads in this report in Hebrew.
“Immediately after the shot was fired, the soldier who fired the shot realized that there had been a misidentification and reported the incident to his commanders, who requested medical attention,” the army continues, saying that the French-Israeli soldier had been declared dead in the incident. hospital after “resuscitation efforts” on the spot.
Sergeant Natan Fitoussi was posthumously promoted to second sergeant, the army said, while Prime Minister Yair Lapid praised his memory as a soldier and sent condolences to his family. A Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 by the Israeli army, the West Bank is the frequent scene of clashes and raids.
Source: BFM TV
