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Israeli settler security chief granted house arrest after being charged with shooting Palestinian woman

LONDON: An Israeli court on Monday ordered a West Bank settlement security chief to be released under house arrest after he was charged with shooting and seriously wounding a Palestinian woman at an unauthorized roadblock last month. The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court ordered that Pinhas Shem Tov Ran, 37, the civilian security coordinator for the Gidonim Ridge settlement bloc in the northern West Bank, be confined at an address in the Golan Heights, Israeli media reported. It rejected a request by