Deaf Palestinian Gunned Down

Israeli troops gunned down a deaf Palestinian man today who apparently failed to hear shouts of warning by the soldiers in a West Bank village, hospital officials and Palestinian sources said.

An Israeli army spokesman confirmed that soldiers entered the area in pursuit of Arab suspects but had no information on the death. Residents of the West Bank village of Abwein said Deeb Mahmub Mohammed Hussein, 43, was working in a field when soldiers who entered the village to make arrests began firing. Hussein, who was deaf, began running and apparently did not hear warning shouts by the soldiers, they said.