Israeli troops have shot and wounded a Palestinian woman at a
checkpoint near the centre of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. The
incident came on Tuesday around 8:30am local time after the victim
attempted to stab a soldier, the Israeli military told
Al Jazeera:
“The attacker attempted to stab a soldier,” the army
spokeswoman said, explaining that the soldier then fired live ammunition
at her “lower extremities”. The soldier was not wounded. Although the
woman’s condition was not known, the army said she has been transferred
to a hospital in Israel.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Hebron resident Issa Amro identified the
woman as 19-year-old Hadeel Salah al-Hashlamon. “Now the soldiers have
increased their numbers throughout the city,” said Amro, who is the
coordinator of the Hebron-based Youth Against Settlements monitoring
group.
According to Amro, clashes broke out between Palestinian youth and
Israeli soldiers in the area following the shooting and “are still
ongoing across the city”. Earlier on Tuesday, a Palestinian man died
during an Israeli army operation in the same city, Hebron, as he handled
a makeshift explosive device.
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