Israeli soldiers shoot and kill an American woman during a West Bank protest, witness says
Source: AP
By AREF TUFANA and JULIA FRANKEL
Updated 10:25 AM CDT, September 6, 2024
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Israeli soldiers killed an American woman participating in an anti-settlement protest in the West Bank on Friday, another protester who witnessed the shooting told The Associated Press. Two doctors said she was shot in the head.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller confirmed the death of the 26-year-old woman but did not say whether she had been shot by Israeli troops. He said the U.S. was gathering more information about the circumstances of her death and would have “more to say.”
He and the doctors who treated her released the woman’s name, but the activist organization she was volunteering with, the International Solidarity Movement, said her family had asked she not be identified.
The Israeli military said it was looking into reports that troops had killed a foreign national while firing at an “instigator of violent activity” in the area of the protest.
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Besides poor Rachel Corrie who paid the ultimate price, in 2012 IDF Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner smashed the face of an unarmed activist named Andaers in the West Bank with his US-made M16 rifle. His expression looks like contempt.
Sources:
https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/16/world/meast/israel-activist-video/index.html
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/06/1150596
