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Israeli forces kill Palestinian woman at Qalandiya checkpoint

Wednesday 18-September-2019

Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday morning shot and killed a Palestinian woman at Qalandiya checkpoint north of Occupied Jerusalem.

Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli forces stationed at Qalandiya checkpoint shot a Palestinian woman in her fifties and left her to bleed for allegedly possessing a knife and plotting a stabbing attack.

The woman was moved to the Israeli hospital Hadassah where she was announced dead.

The Israeli forces later closed the checkpoint and blocked the movement of Palestinian citizens and vehicles.

A video posted on social media showed Israeli soldiers shooting the Palestinian woman although she was several meters away from them.

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