Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT

Israeli aggression claims life of 72 year old Palestinian woman


(MENAFN- Arab News) JERUSALEM: The Israeli Army shot dead two Palestinians on Friday one an elderly woman accused of trying to run over soldiers in the occupied West Bank and the other a man who allegedly took part in a violent Gaza Strip protest hospital officials said.

Separately three Israelis were wounded in the West Bank two of them shot near the Cave of the Patriarchs and a third stabbed outside the Jewish settlement of Beit El the military said.
Searches are underway for their assailants it added.
Near Hebron a 72-year-old Palestinian woman unconfirmed reports said tried to ram her car into a group of Israeli soldiers. They opened fire and wounded the woman who was taken to an Israeli hospital. The hospital said she died en route.
In Gaza young men resisting Zionist aggression gathered near the border fence with Israel and were fired on by troops on the other side. Medics said a Palestinian was killed. The Israeli Army said it opened fire at 'instigators' among the Palestinians after they tried to breach the fence and ignored warning shots.
Another Palestinian from the minority Christian community was critically hurt by Israeli army fire during a violent protest in the West Bank city of Bethlehem medics said.
'My people country are victims of an unjust aggression which includes people and places and does not spare old people or children' Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki told the UNESCO General Assembly in Paris.



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