JERUSALEM: A Palestinian woman was killed on Wednesday after she stabbed an Israeli soldier at Huwara military checkpoint south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian sources said on Thursday.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a press statement that Israeli soldiers stationed at the checkpoint opened fire at 26-year-old Iman Oudeh near the village of Einabus and wounded her critically.
Oudeh succumbed to the wounds she sustained from the gunshots after she was transferred to a hospital, it added.
An Israeli army spokesman said in a statement that Israeli soldiers had “neutralized” a woman who stabbed an Israeli soldier in the shoulder with a knife she was carrying at the Huwara checkpoint.
According to a statement by Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service, the Israeli was a 20-year-old man who sustained light injuries and needed hospital care.
Palestinian eyewitnesses said that Israeli soldiers opened fire at the Palestinian woman at the Huwara checkpoint after she stabbed an Israeli soldier with a knife she was carrying.
The Israeli army has carried out daily raids on Palestinian towns, villages, and refugee camps in the past few months, mainly in the northern West Bank, aiming to arrest Palestinian militants wanted by Israeli security forces.
According to official Palestinian figures, the tension between Israelis and the Palestinians has killed more than 100 Palestinians since January. Meanwhile, Israeli sources said that 19 Israelis were killed in attacks carried out by Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank.
