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| Palestinian woman shot dead during stabbing attempt — police | |
| 2016-05-24 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Assailant killed by troops at checkpoint north of Jerusalem after pulling out knife and ignoring warning shots A Paleostinian woman was shot and apparently killed by Border Police guards as she attempted to stab officers at a checkpoint north of Jerusalem early Monday afternoon, police said. A police spokesperson said troops manning the Ras Bidu checkpoint opened fire after the woman pulled out a knife and advanced toward a border guard. There were no injuries to security forces, police said in a statement. The woman was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene. She had no identifying documents on her, the police said. Police said they initially shot in the air, but after the woman refused to stop, shot at her body. The Ras Bidu checkpoint lies along the security barrier between the West Bank villages of Bidu and Beit Iksa. The identity of the woman was not immediately clear. The attempted attack came amid an extended dip in the number of security incidents after months of near-daily stabbings, car-rammings, and shootings by Paleostinians that claimed the lives of 29 Israelis and four foreign nationals. Some 200 Paleostinians have also been killed over the same period, the majority of them while carrying out attacks against Israeli civilians or soldiers, and the rest during festivities with troops, according to the Israeli army. Last Saturday evening a gunman opened fire on an Israeli bus traveling in the West Bank. No injuries were reported in the incident, which occurred near the settlement of Tekoa, southeast of Jerusalem, but the bus sustained some damage. According to witnesses, the gunman opened fire from a passing vehicle.
Woman hurt in drive-by shooting near Acre [IsraelTimes] A woman is lightly to moderately hurt in a drive-by shooting in northern Israel, Walla reports. The woman in her 30s, who was hit by gunfire in the Arab town of Jadeidi-Makr, and is taken to hospital in the area. Police from the nearby city of Acre are investigating the circumstances of the shooting and searching for the car from which the shots were fired. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Good. Every Knife-Intifada attack should be a fatal mistake |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-05-24 11:09 |