Palestinian woman killed in alleged stabbing attack against Israeli troops
Published June 2, 2016
(JTA) — Following an alleged stabbing attack, Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the north of the West Bank.
An spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces said that the woman tried to stab a soldier at a checkpoint near the Palestinian village of Anabta 25 miles north of Jerusalem, Army Radio reported Thursday. The soldiers felt the woman posed an immediate threat, the IDF spokesperson’s unit said. The incident resulted in no additional casualties.
A report on the incident on the Palestinian Ma’an news agency did not name the woman.
Approximately 200 Palestinians and more than 20 Israelis were killed since the beginning of a wave of attacks and rioting by Palestinians in September.
But the violence has been steadily declining since January, dropping from 620 attacks in October to 115 in April. That month was also the first in half a year with no fatalities among victims of terrorist attacks.
