Palestinian Woman Shot Dead; Israelis Say She Was Armed, Witness Disputes It

[Purveyor]

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]

1. The witness was Palestinian so what he says will dismissed out of hand

sort of like Black witnesses in police shootings here

[mountain grammy]

2. I'm sure the Israeli police will "investigate."...just like American police.

Issa Amer, director of Youth Against Settlements, a Palestinian nonprofit that monitors and documents settler violence and military activity in Hebron, said the group had no information on this specific incident, but "the woman had to go through two metal detectors and revolving doors. This means that her belongings were checked. Also, we call on the military to release video of the incident because there are several CCTV surveillance cameras that record everything in that area."

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. And these are the guys training our local police head honchos.

[Purveyor]

5. Explains much now doesn't it? eom

[Dont call me Shirley]

6. ...

[bemildred]

4. Scared of their own shadows now.

So much for the Sabra Mystique.

[BlueMTexpat]

7. And so it goes ... eom