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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.

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.

Kaabneh was the fifth Palestinian to be killed by Israeli
security forces in the West Bank this week. On Thursday, three
Palestinians, including two members of the Palestinian security
forces, were shot dead during a raid by Israeli undercover
troops in the town of Jenin. On Friday, a 15-year-old boy was
killed by soldiers during protests against a settler outpost
near the town of Beita.

Starting five years ago, Palestinians launched a series of
stabbing and car-ramming attacks against Israelis in the West
Bank and Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. Rights groups have
alleged that Israeli troops often use excessive force against
Palestinians.

The violence takes place in the context of the unresolved
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Talks about setting up a
Palestinian state alongside Israel faltered years ago, while
Israeli settlement expansion on war-won land continues. The
Palestinians seek a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east
Jerusalem, territory Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.

https://news.yahoo.com/israeli-police-woman-knife-shot-
141918732.html

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