WEST BANK (Dispatches) – A Palestinian woman has been shot dead by Zionist troops near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, the Palestinian health ministry says.
The Palestinian ministry said Zionist troops opened fire on the woman — identified as Ghada Ibrahim Sabatien—while she was crossing a military checkpoint near the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported.
The victim, aged in her 40s, died at a hospital in the West Bank city of Beit Jala where she was taken for treatment, after suffering massive blood loss from a torn artery, the ministry said.
The occupying regime claimed its troops fired warning shots into the air when the woman approached them, before they “fired towards the suspect’s lower body.”
The woman, a widowed mother of six, was then transferred to the Red Crescent for treatment, the regime’s troops said, adding that it was investigating the incident.
Earlier, Zionist troops launched a new raid into the occupied West Bank district of Jenin, home of the fighter who launched recent shooting operation attacks in the Tel Aviv area.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced on Sunday that at least 10 people sustained injuries in fierce clashes with Zionist troops in Jenin as well as in Ariha and Tulkarem, with media reports saying 24 Palestinians were arrested in various West Bank cities.
The occupation forces also stormed the town of Y’bad, southwest of the city of Jenin, and raided the Palestinian houses, assaulting their residents and subjecting them to severe beatings.
The Israeli military also said in a brief message that, “Troops are currently operating in the city of Jenin,” in the north of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestine Health Ministry reported on Saturday that one Palestinian was martyred and 13 were wounded during clashes between local residents in Jenin and the armed forces of the occupying regime.
On Thursday, Ra’ad Fathi Hazem, entered a pub on a crowded main street of Tel Aviv and began shooting, killing three Zionists and wounding more than a dozen others.
The 28-year-old, a resident of the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, was killed by Zionist troops in a pre-dawn firefight near a mosque on the first Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
Palestinian resistance groups hailed the “heroic operation” as a “natural and legitimate response to the escalation of the occupation’s crimes.”
Palestinians have ramped up retaliatory attacks against Zionist troops in recent weeks, carrying out a series of operations that have killed at least 11 Zionists since March 22. Eight Palestinians have also been killed during the same period.
Meanwhile, as charitable donations from the U.S. Zionist Jewish community are funding far-right Zionist hate groups and inciting anti-Palestinian violence across the occupied territories, 19 American rabbis privately warned in a letter following the regime’s 11-day military aggression against Gaza last May.
The group, which includes several prominent rabbis, decided to go public with their pleas after reportedly being rebuffed by the purported Jewish charity and the persistence of growing attacks against local Palestinians by extremist Zionist militants across occupied Palestine, the UK-based Middle East Monitor reported.
In the letter, organized by the Jewish human rights group called T’ruah, the 19 New York rabbis stated that donations from the so-called Jewish Communal Fund (JCF) -- a major U.S.-based “charity” with a $2.4 billion fund -- is going to Lehava, a far-right Zionist hate group that promotes Jewish supremacy in historic Palestine, according to the report.
“We have been disturbed to learn that one recipient of JCF funding is the Central Fund of Israel, which is one of the primary U.S. vehicles for donations to Israeli groups that funnel money to Lehava,” the letter read, insisting that the extremist Zionist group led a violent march through Al-Quds last June.