1. As the patrol approached the roadblock, it came under fire from two locations. 2. Others were riddled with bullets as they approached Israeli roadblocks, with other passengers wounded or killed. 3. There would be a difference between a convoy that approached a roadblock defended by Bosnian Serbs, for example, and a convoy that was ambushed. 4. Two men approached the roadblock with explosives strapped to their torsos. 5. Palestinian witnesses said the van approached the roadblock at high speed, but that soldiers shot without provocation. 6. A source close to Palestinian parliament speaker Ahmed Qureia said his car was fired on as it approached a roadblock between the West Bank town of Ramallah and Jerusalem. 7. Bethlehem was the scene of a shooting earlier Saturday, in which Israeli police fired on a car approaching a roadblock at high speed with Israeli police in pursuit. 8. In the incident Tuesday, soldiers opened fire on a van carrying the workers when the vehicle approached the roadblock at high speed. 9. Netanyahu defended the action of the soldiers at the roadblock, saying they believed they were the target of a terror attack when the van approached the roadblock quickly. 10. Radio reports said the Palestinian approached the roadblock in a suspicious way, and the soldiers fired. |