Palestinian Woman Shot Dead; Israelis Say She Was Armed, Witness Disputes It
Source: CNN
Jerusalem (CNN)Israeli police said they fatally shot a knife-wielding Palestinian woman at a border checkpoint Sunday, but a Palestinian witness disputed that she was armed, saying she was a "terrified" schoolgirl.
The woman aroused the suspicion of border police at a checkpoint beside the Cave of the Patriarchs (known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque) in the West Bank city of Hebron, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
"They asked her to identify herself and she suddenly took out a knife, started to approach them while shouting at them. The police fired accurately and neutralized her," he said. "There are no injuries to the Border Police force."
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"There were seven or eight soldiers around her. The soldiers checked her belongings in a school bag. She looked like she was around 14 years old," he said.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/25/middleeast/israel-palestinian-tensions/
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)sort of like Black witnesses in police shootings here
mountain grammy
(26,650 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)So much for the Sabra Mystique.