On 10 August 2002, Ahmad al-Qureini, 54, was driving in a vehicle of the Nablus Municipality. He was on his way to make repairs in the electricity network. The city was under an IDF curfew, but al-Qureini had a special permit that allowed him to move about during curfew. Around 3:30 P.M., an IDF soldier stopped him. Ahmad Sma'aneh, 23, who was in the vehicle with him, related what happened then:

I saw four Israeli soldiers. Two of them were searching the hospital's ambulance, and the other two soldiers were standing on the side of the road. A soldier standing on the left side motioned to us to go back. We backed up about two meters. Then he motioned for us to move forward, and he fired a shot in the air. We proceeded slowly... The soldier who was on the left side of the road aimed his weapon at us, motioned with his right hand that we proceed, and then fired two more bullets. One of the bullets pierced the front windshield of our vehicle and hit Ahmad in the head. The second bullet shattered the blinking light on the roof.

B'Tselem requested the Chief Military Prosecutor to order an investigation by the Military Police. In her response to the request, the Chief Military Prosecutor offered a different version of the incident than that provided by the IDF Spokesperson. She stated that, during an army patrol enforcing the curfew in the center of Nablus, the soldiers saw a commercial vehicle approaching them. The vehicle suddenly stopped about 150 meters from them, which "raised suspicion." The soldiers did not identify the truck as a municipal vehicle because it did not have a blinking orange light on it. They thought that the driver was trying to evade the soldiers, so they fired two warning shots into the air. Because the vehicle "stood at the edge of a moderate incline," one of the bullets that was fired "at a relatively flat trajectory penetrated the windshield, and possibly caused the death of the driver." Therefore, the Chief Military Prosecutor held that the soldiers "did not deviate from the domain of reasonable conduct expected in actions by military forces in the relevant area and circumstances," and that there was no justification for an investigation by the Military Police.

A video-tape filmed by an AP journalist immediately after the incident occurred clearly shows that the vehicle had an orange blinking light. B'Tselem again requested, based on the film, the Chief Military Prosecutor to order a Military Police investigation. B'Tselem also argued that the contention that the soldiers suspected that the driver trying to evade them after he stopped in a manner that "raised suspicion" was illogical. The Judge Advocate General's office requested a copy of the tape. After reviewing the tape, the JAG's office informed B'Tselem that a Military Police investigation had been opened. The investigation is still ongoing, more than one year after the incident occurred.