Palestinian woman shot after alleged stabbing attempt

In the November 23 incident, the 16-year-old girl, along with a 14-year-old girl, stabbed a 70-year-old man with scissors before they were shot. “No longer posing a threat”, a ministry statement said.

Since Oct. 1, Israeli forces have killed 112 Palestinians, 67 of whom Israel says were assailants or had been caught on camera carrying out assaults.

In a separate attack, paramilitary border police shot dead a second Palestinian who tried to ram them with his vehicle, a spokeswoman for the force said.

Clashes erupted on Wednesday after Israeli soldiers raided a refugee camp near Ramallah and shot dead two Palestinians who sought to ram their cars into troops. Since mid-Sept., Palestinians have killed 19 Israelis in stabbing, shooting & vehicular assaults.

The Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba is located in the southern West Bank on the outskirts of the flashpoint city of Hebron, where much of a surge in violence since October has been focused.

Palestinians are frustrated at the failure of long-running peace efforts with Israel and its 48-year occupation of the West Bank.

Israeli soldiers fire tear gas at Palestinian demonstrators during clashes on the outskirts of Ramal …

‘ Israeli aircraft attacked what the military said were two military posts the Islamic militant group that commands Gaza Monday.

The army has been criticised by several human rights organisations for implementing a “shoot-to-kill” policy against alleged Palestinian attackers and protestors.

Last Thursday, the official PA daily, Al Hayat Al Jadida, referred to the confiscation as the “Israeli war against children’s dolls” and even claimed that Israel’s problem was the Palestinian headscarf. There were no immediate reports of victims.

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