Israel

Female Hamas Terrorist Eliminated Near Jerusalem

June 12, 2021 9:45 pm

Israel Palestinians — Israeli forces carry a woman's body to an ambulance who was shot and killed at the Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, June 12, 2021. Israeli police say a private security guard at the checkpoint shot and killed the woman who allegedly planned to carry out a stabbing attack. The police said in a statement that the guard saw the woman with a knife and shot her. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police said a Palestinian woman carrying a knife ran toward an Israeli military checkpoint on Saturday and was shot dead by a private security guard.

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The shooting took place at the Qalandiya checkpoint near Jerusalem, one of the largest in the occupied West Bank. Police said the woman, identified as a 28-year-old resident of a West Bank refugee camp, had ignored calls by the guard to stop.

Amateur video posted online showed the woman lying on the ground at the crossing.

The Palestinian Prisoners Club, an advocacy group, said her name was Ibtissam Kaabneh and that she had previously served 18 months in an Israeli prison, after being arrested in 2016. Media reports said she had served time for an attempted stabbing.

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