Palestinian villagers said he apparently was hunting when the settlers killed him.

As important: the Palestinian villagers were ready to cooperate with Israelis.

And many Palestinian villagers were told by their leaders to send away vulnerable residents, prompting the men to leave as well.

A Palestinian villager who years ago had done construction work at the kibbutz faxed a condolence message.

Until the end of the 19th century, most Palestinian Muslim villagers in the countryside did not have local mosques.

But it has ordered the route of the barrier altered where it impinges too much on the lives of Palestinian villagers or expropriates land unnecessarily.

He strove to make the Catholic faith the religion of the Palestinian villagers.

His mother was an upper-middle class Iranian, his father a Palestinian villager of modest means.

American pressure and the Israeli courts have altered the route of the barrier to lessen the impact on Palestinian villagers, most recently last week.

According to a report in the news service Haaretz, security services said senior rabbis were inciting students to attack Palestinian villagers.