Ramallah, West Bank: Israeli forces shot a female Palestinian attacker at a West Bank checkpoint. The Israeli military said that the woman had allegedly attempted to stab a soldier. The woman later died of her injuries, according to her father.
The military said forces opened fire and "identified a hit" following the incident in the West Bank city of Hebron. The woman was identified as 18-year-old university student Hadeel al-Hashlamon. She was taken to an Israeli hospital in critical condition and her father, Salah al-Hashlamon, said she later died of her injuries. The soldier was not wounded.
In this picture, Israeli soldiers can be seen aiming their rifles at a woman said to be 19-year-old Palestinian student Hadeel al-Hashlamun, before she was shot and killed by Israeli troops, at an Israeli checkpoint.
The Israeli military said troops shot al-Hashlamun as she tried to stab a soldier. But relatives of al-Hashlamun denied the Israeli report saying she was executed.
In a picture posted on Facebook, a soldier could be seen aiming his rifle at a woman said to be Hashlamon, standing a short distance away. She was completely covered in a black robe.
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