Alwaght- Israeli regime forces shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the northern occupied West Bank on Thursday afternoon.
The deadly incident took place at the Innab Israeli regime’s army checkpoint near the Palestinian town of Anabta, located adjacent to the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that Israeli regime forces opened fire at a Palestinian woman identified as 25-year-old Ansar Hussam Harasha, a married mother of two.
Palestinian Red Crescent spokeswoman Errab Foqoha told Ma'an that Israeli forces prevented an ambulance from the health organization from accessing the scene. Foqoha added that Red Crescent staff saw the woman lying on the ground before being taken inside an Israeli ambulance, which stayed on the scene.
Israeli regime forces claimed that the Palestinian woman attempted to stab troops at the checkpoint.
Nearly 220 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire since the outbreak of Al Quds Intifada on October 1, 2015 raising international concerns over the excessive and extreme, use of force against Palestinian protesters. Israeli forces have carried out a series of unlawful killings of Palestinians using intentional lethal force without justification.
Tensions heightened in the Palestinian territories in August 2015, when the Israeli regime imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian Muslim worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds. The recent al-Quds Intifada was also ignited to end the temporal and spatial division of al-Aqsa Mosque, the Israeli settlement construction, the Judaism schemes, and Israeli regimes brutal attacks on Palestinians.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that it was “human nature” for Palestinians to react violently to Israel’s decades-long military occupation, and urged change in Israel’s policies in the occupied territories.
