The Palestinian National Authority(PNA) on Tuesday rejected Israeli police's account over the killing of an Palestinian living in Jerusalem by a Jewish man this morning.

Hatem Abdel Kader, Palestinian minister of Jerusalem affairs, said the shooting at the Palestinian man by an armed Israeli "was not accidental."

The shooting, which also wounded an Israeli bystander, "was part of a terror plan carried out by an undercover radical Jewish group against the Palestinian citizens in Jerusalem city," Abdel Kader told Xinhua.

The armed Jew fired from his pistol after he thought the Palestinian man would attack him, an Israeli police spokesman said in reference to the shootout. The spokesman did not reveal the identity of the slain but added that the Israeli man, who was injured, was in moderate condition.

Abdel Kader recalled that a number of Palestinians were killed in recent months in Jerusalem and inside Israel by extremist Jews who were not found guilty by the Israeli authorities.

He shouldered Israel the responsibility and said that "the Palestinians will not stand idle in front of such attacks."

(Xinhua News Agency June 2, 2009)