A Palestinian woman who attempted to carry out a stabbing attack on an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday (June 1st) was killed, the Israeli army and the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
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Ghofran Warasnah, 31, was killed by live ammunition in the chest by the Israeli army near the Palestinian refugee camp of Al Aroub in the Hebron area (south), according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The Israeli army said it hadneutralized“an assailant armed with a knife”approaching a soldier who was conducting a routine security operationon a road near Al Aroub camp. “The soldiers responded by opening fire“Said the army in a short press release, specifying that none had been injured and broadcasting the photo of a small kitchen knife.
In recent weeks, after a series of attacks in Israel, some of which were perpetrated by Palestinians, the Israeli army has stepped up operations in the West Bank, territory occupied since 1967 by the Jewish state. Last Friday, a Palestinian teenager, Zayd Mohammed Ghouneim, was shot and killed by the Israeli army near Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.