Occupation troops shoot dead two Palestinians in West Bank
THEY ALLEGEDLY CARRIED OUT ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAELIS
The Israeli regime’s military yesterday said it had shot and killed two Palestinians who tried to carry out separate stabbing attacks in the occupied West Bank.
The attacks were the latest in a wave of violence that erupted in mid-September and has shown no signs of ending.
Early yesterday, the regime’s military claimed that a Palestinian attempted to stab a pedestrian at the busy Gush Etzion junction of Jews-only colonies in the West Bank when Israeli occupation troops shot and killed him. An Israeli who was nearby was lightly wounded in the shooting.
No video footage
Several hours later, the army reported another incident, in which a woman allegedly tried to stab a soldier near the colony of Einav, also in the West Bank. It said the soldier opened fire, killing her. The army didn’t say how close the attackers got to their targets, and no video footage was immediately released. The latest, two-month round of IsraeliPalestinian violence began in mid-September with clashes at a sensitive holy site in occupied Jerusalem and quickly spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza.
Since then, 19 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings and shootings. More than 100 Palestinians have been killed, including 65 said by Israel to be attackers. The others died in clashes with Israeli forces.