Israel troops kill ‘woman attacker’
A knife-wielding Palestinian woman, 31, threatened an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank and was shot dead yesterday, the army said, an account disputed by Palestinian officials. In a statement, the Israeli army said "an assailant armed with a knife advanced toward an IDF (Israel Defence Force) soldier who was conducting routine security activity" near Al Aroub village. "The soldiers responded with live fire," it said. The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned the killing as a "field execution". "She was en route to her work and there were no incidents there or danger to the criminals," the ministry said in a statement.
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