Hamra Checkpoint
Ma'an
Bethlehem - Israeli forces shot on sight a young Palestinian woman approaching the Hamra checkpoint on foot after allegedly warning her to halt and firing warning shots in the air, Israeli press reported Friday.
Palestinian security forces later identified the woman as Khadija Azzat, 20, from Nablus. She was on her way to the Jordan Valley when the incident occurred... shot in the lower half of the body and taken to Israeli hospital with moderate injuries...
The Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth lamented the incident, saying Azzat’s actions “took place in the midst of a wide-scale effort in recent weeks to ease freedom of movement for the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
The Israeli campaign to ease movement in the West Bank follows ten years of near-total closures and humiliation campaigns and has seen several main checkpoints enlarged and a system of travel corridors made available for Palestinians.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the system is entrenching free passage for settlers in the West Bank, while spending millions on containing Palestinians to a small number of secondary road systems. Full story
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