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Israeli Troops Kill 95
Year-Old Palestinian
Woman
12-3-2
- RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec 3
(AFP) - A 95-year-old Palestinian woman was killed as Israeli troops
fired on her car at an entrance to the West Bank city of Ramallah on
Tuesday, Palestinian medical sources said.
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- Fatmah Mohammed Obeid, 95, became the oldest victim of
the 26-month-old cycle of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
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- A Palestinian official condemned the killing as "a war
crime."
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- "We condemn the crime committed by the Israeli army
against the ederly Fatmah Obeid in Ramallah," chief Palestinian
negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP.
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- "This is a war crime which comes after many others
committed by the Israeli army ... We hold the Israeli government
responsible for these crimes and their continuation," he said.
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- Erakat likened Obeid's killing to that of a
72-year-old man found dead Sunday under the rubble of his home in the
northern Gaza Strip after the army had dynamited the building where the
elderly man's son, an Islamic Jihad militant, also lived.
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- Three other Palestinians, including two women, were
injured in the Ramallah shooting, the sources said.
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- The shooting, witnessed by an AFP correspondent, took
place near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, northeast of Ramallah, as
Palestinians were queuing to enter the West Bank city where the curfew
had been lifted by the army.
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- Army jeeps had blocked the road where hundreds of
Palestinians were waiting to enter Ramallah, the correspondent
said.
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- Israeli troops arrested eight young men and ordered
the crowd to disperse and use another checkpoint to enter the city, he
said.
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- Moments later, they opened fire, hitting the
stationary car in which Obeid was sitting with several bullets, he
added. He saw two bullet wounds in Obeid's body.
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- Military sources said the vehicle was moving and that
soldiers only aimed at the tyres.
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- Her death brings to 2,739 the number of people killed
since the beginning of the Palestinian uprising more than two years ago,
including 2,011 Palestinians and 678 Israelis.
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