Friday, October 18, 2024

 i see lots of variations on this theme as i surf, daily. its how things are when you're a palestinian so get used to it is probably the refrain in that area;


A 59-year-old Palestinian woman has been shot dead by Israeli forces while attending to her family’s olive grove in the north of the occupied West Bank.

In a statement released on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Hanan Abdel Rahman Abu Salama “was killed by (Israeli) occupation bullets” in Faqoua village, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said medical teams had tried to resuscitate her as she was being transferred to hospital.

The incident happened as she was picking olives with other members of her family when soldiers stationed on the nearby separation wall opened fire, her son said.

“We had permission to pick the olives but despite that, they shot at us and killed my mother,” said Faris Abu Salami, who was with his mother at the shooting site.

The local council had negotiated permission from the Israeli army for the family and other villagers to pick olives on their lands providing they stayed at least 100 meters from the wall.

“We were much further than that from the wall. All of a sudden they started shooting randomly. We started collecting our things to leave and moved away. My father waved his white hat in the air hoping they would stop. They shot her in the back as we were fleeing the shooting.”

Barakat al-Omari, the mayor of Faqqua, confirmed that the residents had been more than 150 meters from the wall when they were shot at.........more.......

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