Jenin militant charged over theater director murder
JENIN (AFP) — Police in Jenin have charged a former Al-Aqsa Brigades militant with the murder of an Israeli-Palestinian theatre director, security sources said Wednesday.
Palestinian police arrested Mujahed Qaniri on Monday, just hours after a masked gunman shot dead Juliano Mer-Khamis, director of The Freedom Theatre in the refugee camp in this northern West Bank city.
Mer-Khamis, a well-known actor and director who was born of Jewish and Palestinian parents, was gunned down as he was driving home, with his infant son sat on his knee and the baby-sitter also in the car.