内容摘要："This is five years of basically flat mortality improvement, it's pretty poor by historical standards," said Stuart McDonald from the CMI.

"This is five years of basically flat mortality improvement, it's pretty poor by historical standards," said Stuart McDonald from the CMI.

Then he drove away. We were free to move on. Later as we were having lunch in a café about 15km (nine miles) away, a policeman appeared, looking for Gil Alexander.He went with the police officer for questioning. After about an hour he returned, telling us he had been ordered not to enter the Jordan Valley for two weeks. He plans to lodge his own complaint against Moshe Sharvit over the incident.

We went to Gil Alexander's home in a kibbutz inside Israel that overlooks the Valley. Gunmen from the Palestinian city of Jenin fired at the kibbutz two years ago.Gil Alexander is not a pacifist. If he is attacked by Hamas or any other group, he will defend himself.He said: "A son of our friends, two months ago he was killed here by a terrorist. He was a soldier in the reserves, 46 years old with six children. He volunteered for the reserves to protect me."

"If the army hadn't been there, they would have come here. He was killed while defending me. And today he is buried next to my two sons."But Gil Alexander seemed weary as we sat drinking tea amid the bright red flowers of his well-tended garden, and the fluttering yellow flags that symbolise Israel's hostages held in Gaza.

He spoke of a beloved nephew killed fighting in Lebanon in an earlier war.

Did he not, I wondered, at the age of 72, think about retiring from the struggle and enjoying his garden? He laughed.The restaurant's owner, Sara Petko, said that staff members - some of whom were his classmates - thought he was a "loner" but that they were having trouble understanding how an otherwise quiet man turned to violence.

Another former classmate told ABC News he "shot terrible" and "wasn't really fit for the rifle team". The school district said there was no record of Crooks trying out for the team and he "never appeared on a roster".Jameson Myers, who graduated alongside Crooks in 2022, remembers him as seemingly a "normal boy" who was not particularly popular but never got picked on.

“He was a nice kid who never talked poorly of anyone and I never have thought him capable of anything I’ve seen him do in the last few days.”Max Smith, who took an American history course with Crooks, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that his former classmate "definitely was conservative".