The Israeli police acquitted on Tuesday the settler charged with shooting and killing the Jerusalemite youth Mohammed Sharaf on Friday in Ras al-Amud neighborhood in East Jerusalem Haaretz reported.
Palestinians had released a videotape capturing the fatal shooting of Sharaf by the settler.
After summoning the settler for interrogation the Israeli police announced that he is not the one who killed Sharaf.
The police said that they are facing difficulties collecting evidence because the young man was buried shortly after he died and added that they had conducted an investigation at al-Makassed hospital where Sharaf was taken after being shot.
