In other developments yesterday, a senior Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said an Armenian monk seriously wounded in the besieged Church of the Nativity compound in Bethlehem was apparently shot by an Israeli soldier.
The army initially said the monk was shot by one of the more than 200 armed Palestinians holed up in the church.
However, preliminary results of an army investigation indicated that the monk was shot by an Israeli soldier who mistook him for a Palestinian gunman, the official said.
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