Palestinian worker dies during Israeli police chase

20 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2011 الساعة . 02:24 ص   بتوقيت القدس

A Palestinian worker died on Sunday during a police chase of a number of workers in Tamra city in Palestinian land occupied in 1948, local sources said.

They said that Nazir Bani Odeh, 30, was working in a construction workshop when the Israeli police stormed the facility and all Arab workers fled.

The Israeli police chased the workers during which Bani Odeh, who is from Tamon village in Tobas province, collapsed and died of a heart attack.

In another development, Israeli occupation forces detained the owner of a money exchange shop in Al-Khalil city on Monday after confiscating whatever was inside the shop.

Another man was detained by the IOF troops in Beit Ola village to the west of Al-Khalil on Sunday night.