[Ha'aretz] Roni Singer-Haruti - Police special forces stormed the British Embassy in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening and captured a Palestinian man who had been holed up inside for eight hours, claiming to have a gun and demanding political asylum. Police said the forces seized and disarmed the man after he laid down his pistol for a second to eat food they had given him. After the arrest, the authorities discovered that the weapon was plastic. Nadim Injaz, 28, a resident of Ramallah and former police informant, told Israel Channel 2 television that he would rather die than return to the West Bank, where he feared Palestinian militants would kill him. He said West Bank militants told him that he would only be allowed to return to Ramallah alive if he attacked Israelis. "I don't want to kill children," he said.
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