Israeli Forces Assault Palestinian Elderly Woman under Pretext of Stabbing Attempt (+Video)
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Israeli occupation forces arrested a woman from the Old City of Al-Khalil (Hebron), after severely assaulting her near the Ibrahimi Mosque, claiming that she attempted to stab a settler.
Local sources said that the 65 years old woman, Saadia Salem Faraj Allah from the town of Idna, west of Al-Khalil, suffered multiple injuries, as a result of the attack by Israeli occupation forces stationed at a military checkpoint positioned in the opposite direction of the Ibrahimi Mosque, without elaborating about her health condition, Palestinian News Network reported.
Israeli border guards said they had arrested the so-called attacker, a 65-year-old Palestinian woman from a nearby village, the statement added.
The Hebrew media claimed that the wounded man was a 38-year-old resident of the nearby settlement of Kiryat Arba.
Israel seized the West Bank in the Six-Day War of 1967. Since then nearly 700,000 Jewish Israelis have moved into West Bank and east Jerusalem settlements that much of the international community regard as illegal.
Al-Khalil, the largest city in the West Bank with some 200,000 Palestinian residents, also has some 1,000 Jewish settlers living there under heavy protection from the Israeli army.