A Palestinian woman was shot dead by Israeli occupation troops on Wednesday in the West Bank city of Hebron, reported the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA.
The agency said that Rasmeyyeh Jawad Abu Sbeih, 40, was shot in the head on the Dhahreyyeh-Beer-Sheva road, adding that she was on her way to work with a number of other Palestinian women.
The victim was a widow and a mother of two.
In another development, Israel Radio reported that two unexploded bombs were discovered Wednesday in Afula, north of Israel.
It said that police arrested a suspect at the scene, saying he could have planted the explosives.
One of the bombs was found close to the site of a deadly suicide bombing seven years ago, the radio said, cited by Haaretz newspaper.
Since the outbreak of the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict last September, CNN reports that Palestinians have killed over 112 Israelis with weapons ranging from stones and knives to machineguns and car bombs. Israeli military sources have reported well over 600 injuries to Israelis of Jewish descent.
In the same time period, according to CNN, Israeli soldiers and armed Jewish settlers have killed 13 Arab Israelis and over 458 Palestinians with weapons ranging from machineguns and tanks to US-made Apache helicopter gunships and F-16s.
According to Amnesty International, nearly 100 of the Palestinians killed were children.
In addition, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society has reported over 14,000 Palestinians wounded, and over 520 killed.
Jewish author Noam Chomsky, who according to a New York Times Book Review article is “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” has been quoted as saying: “State terrorism is an extreme form of terrorism, generally much worse than individual terrorism because it has the resources of a state behind it.” – Albawaba.com
