Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian man during a search for three missing Israeli teens, feared abducted in the West Bank June 12, in the village of Beit Kahil near Hebron. |
RAMALLAH — An elderly Palestinian woman who suffered a heart attack during an Israeli raid on a refugee camp north of Hebron died early Thursday, June 26, Palestinian Ma’an News Agency reported, in the second incident of its kind in less than a week.
Her death also brings to eight the number of Palestinians who have been killed as a result of Israel’s West Bank offensive launched almost two weeks ago after three settlers went missing.
Fatima Ismail Issa Rushdi, 78, was taken from al-Arrub refugee camp to al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, where she died.
Over the course of the Wednesday night raid, Israeli soldiers ransacked homes, served summons orders to several men, and fired tear gas and rubber-coated bullets, injuring nine youths.
An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed that soldiers fired live rounds at a Palestinian crowd which had hurled rocks at a bus, the agency reported.
Separately, Israeli forces abducted two children in the town of Dura, near Hebron, Ma’an said. It identified them as 13-year-old Sufyan Jaafar Abu Arqub and 14-year-old Jaafar Taha.
On Saturday a 60-year-old Palestinian man died of a heart attack after trying to prevent occupation forces from breaking into his home in the central West Bank town of Salfit.
Six Palestinians have been shot and killed by Israeli forces since June 12 and at least two more have died of heart attacks sustained during raids.
More than 120 Palestinians have been injured.
Roughly 500 people have been arrested in the West Bank since the raids began, according to Palestinian figures.
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