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Shots, Possibly Hostages At Turkish Embassy

Conflicting reports from Tel Aviv

by
Marc Tracy
August 17, 2010
Guards outside the embassy.(Ynet)
Guards outside the embassy.(Ynet)

Depending on which report you believe, a man, possibly mentally ill, not wearing clothes was shot outside the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv; an armed Palestinian from the West Bank has barricaded himself inside the embassy and created what a Foreign Ministry spokesperson described as “a hostage situation”; shots have been fired inside the embassy; the man inside the embassy is a Palestinian named Nadim Injaz who previously sought asylum at the British Embassy, and he has taken hostages; and the shooting outside and the hostage situation inside are two separate incidents. We’ll have more as the fog clears.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.