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MIDEAST-ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-UNREST-SHOOTING Israeli police men exsamining the body of a Palestinian man shot dead lies on the ground in the old city of annexed east Jerusalem, 10 August 2007. A Palestinian man was shot dead in a gunfight with Israeli security guards from an ultra-nationalist Jewish association in the Old City of Israeli occupied east Jerusalem, police said. It was the latest violent incident involving Jews and Arabs in the tense Arab sector of the city, whose fate is one of the thorniest issues at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Jerusalem police chief Aaron Franco said the Palestinian shot and wounded the guard from the ultra-Orthodox Ateret Cohanim yeshiva, whose colleague then fired on the assailant and killed him. Ten other people were wounded in the shooting, three of them seriously, according to Israel emergency services. Photo by Ouria Tadmor COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 OURIA TADMOR