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Two Palestinian women were killed by soldiers in separate instances in the occupied West Bank. The troops shot a Palestinian woman near Bethlehem on Sunday. The woman, who was in her 40s, died as a result of a ruptured artery and substantial blood loss, according to the ministry.
According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, she was identified as Ghada Ibrahim Sabatien, a widowed mother of six children.
When a suspect approached, soldiers fired warning bullets into the air, then “fired towards the man’s lower torso” near Husan, according to the Israeli army.
According to an Israeli police statement, a Palestinian woman stabbed and lightly wounded an Israeli border police officer before being killed by Israeli forces in the southern city of Hebron.
For the second day in a row, Israeli soldiers raided the West Bank city of Jenin, the home of the alleged attackers who carried out recent deadly strikes in the Tel Aviv area. At least ten persons have been injured in clashes in Jenin, Jericho, and Tulkarem.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, 24 arrests were made in various occupied West Bank cities.
A man from Jenin is accused of killing three Israelis and injuring more than a dozen others in a popular Tel Aviv nightlife area on Thursday evening, prompting the military action.
Israel said on Friday that Raad Hazem, the alleged attacker, had been slain.
Since March 22, 14 people have been slain in four incidents in Israel, including another shooting near Tel Aviv in Bnei Brak, an Orthodox Jewish enclave.
In fierce gun engagements on Saturday, the Israeli army and border police killed a 25-year-old Palestinian from Islamic Jihad, the major Palestinian armed movement other than Hamas.
According to the ministry, thirteen other Palestinians were injured in the incident on Saturday, including a 19-year-old woman who was shot in the stomach.
On Saturday, the Israeli army attacked the town of Burqin near Jenin, ostensibly in search of former Palestinian prisoner Nour al-Din Hamada. That raid resulted in two injuries.