Palestinian woman wounded by IDF fire
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Jul. 3, 2009
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A Palestinian woman carrying a suspicious object was moderately wounded by
IDF fire on Friday morning near the Bekaot checkpoint in the Jordan Valley,
north of Jericho.

The soldiers shot at the woman's lower body after shooting in the air and
after she did not heed their calls to stop advancing towards them, the
military said.

After the woman was shot, the soldiers discovered she was carrying a toy
gun. She was evacuated to Haemek Hospital in Afula in moderate condition.

An officer of the Civil Administration who interrogated the wounded woman
asked her why she acted in the way she did. She showed him bruise marks on
her hands and said she wanted to kill herself after having been abused in
her house. The woman is an 18-year-old, married with a child.

The IDF said troops at the checkpoint acted according to protocol.

Three years ago, a gunman shot and killed an IDF soldier at the same
checkpoint. IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Ro'i Farjun was killed at there in August
2006, after a Palestinian opened fire at him. Troops returned fire, killing
the gunman.