Israeli occupation troops killed Tuesday a Palestinian woman in the West Bank city of Jenin, witnesses and medics said.
Witnesses told WAFA news agency that Israeli tanks and military jeeps stormed into the eastern part of the city of Jenin, amid intensive fire, and shot the woman dead. According to sources at Suleiman Hospital, the 22-year-old woman, Dalal al-Sabbagh, was instantly killed.
Palestinian security sources said that the Israeli armoured vehicles, backed by helicopters, stormed and imposed for a few hours curfew on the eastern part of Jenin, and arrested the 22-year-old activist, Mohammad Radwan. Israeli sources said Radwan was a leading military operative in the Islamic Jihad movement.
Also on Tuesday a pregnant woman, named Eitemad M. Kollab, 34, died of wounds she sustained on March 4 in the Gaza Strip City of Rafah. According to WAFA, Kollab was wounded when an Israeli tank bounded her house with a missile and instantly killed her husband.
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