Israeli troops kill Palestinian after alleged car attack
Date
3/4/2016 12:24:46 PM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) >A Palestinian woman was shot dead by Israeli forces on Friday after allegedly carrying out a vehicular attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank the Israeli army and eyewitnesses have said.
According to an army statement the woman had allegedly tried to hit an Israeli soldier with her car at the entrance of the Jewish-only Gush Etzion settlement in the southern West Bank.
The statement said Israeli forces responded by opening fire on the assailant who was killed immediately.
Eyewitnesses meanwhile told Anadolu Agency that Israeli soldiers had killed Amani Sbatien 34 by firing more than twenty bullets into her car on the pretext that she had tried to run over an Israeli soldier.
Witnesses added that army personnel had prevented rescue workers from the Palestinian Red Crescent from treating the woman after she had been shot.
According to Palestinian figures at least 189 Palestinians have been killed since the current uptick in Israeli-Palestinian violence began on Oct. 1 of last year.
Israel for its part says at least 33 Israelis have been killed in alleged attacks by Palestinians over the same period.
By Anees Bargouthi
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