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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