Israeli terrorist forces shoot Nablus woman holding toy gun

Israeli occupation terrorist soldiers wound a Palestinian woman at a roadblock in the Jordan valley

Friday July 03, 2009 08:04 by IMEMC News

A Palestinian woman was shot and moderately wounded in her lower body after an Israeli terrorist soldier opened fire at her at the B’qaot military roadblock in the Jordan valley.

Israeli military sources claimed that the woman arrived at the roadblock while carrying a ‘suspicious object’, and that she failed to cede to the soldiers orders to stop.

The army claimed that the soldiers fired several rounds into the air before shooting her.

It was revealed later on that the woman carried a plastic gun. She was moved to a hospital for medical attention.

Israeli terrorist forces shoot Nablus woman holding toy gun

Date: 03 / 07 / 2009 Time: 09:22
Bethlehem - Ma’an/Agencies -

Israeli occupation terrorist forces shot on sight a young Palestinian woman approaching the Hamra checkpoint on foot after allegedly warning her to halt and firing warning shots in the air, Israeli press reported Friday.

Palestinian security forces later identified the woman as Khadija Azzat, 20, from Nablus. She was on her way to the Jordan Valley when the incident occurred.

Azzat, who apparently did not stop to be searched by the officers, was shot in the lower half of the body and taken to Israeli hospital with moderate injuries. The checkpoint is one of 68 permanently staffed closure points in the West Bank.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth lamented the incident, saying Azzat’s actions “took place in the midst of a wide-scale effort in recent weeks to ease freedom of movement for the Palestinians in the West Bank.”

The Israeli campaign to ease movement in the West Bank follows ten years of near-total closures and humiliation campaigns and has seen several main checkpoints enlarged and a system of travel corridors made available for Palestinians.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the system is entrenching free passage for settlers in the West Bank, while spending millions on containing Palestinians to a small number of secondary road systems.

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