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Scene. Published by Maan News
Moment of Shooting. Screenshot. Published by Ynet News
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JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli border police shot and injured a Palestinian woman in occupied East Jerusalem’s Shufat neighborhood on Sunday night.

Witnesses told Ma’an that the woman, whose identity remained unknown, sustained injuries after being shot in the leg by Israeli border police officers near the light rail station in Shufat.

Israeli news website Ynet reported that the soldiers said “their suspicion was aroused after the woman started slowly approaching them, who was wearing a Burqa, which they feared may be concealing a weapon or an explosive device.”

“After the woman failed to heed their calls to stop, the security forces opened fire, aiming at her legs,” Ynet said.

In a video recorded of the shooting, the Israeli soldiers can be seen pointing their weapons at the woman while yelling at her before shooting her a single time, causing her to fall to the ground.
Ynet added that after Israeli forces found no weapons on the woman, and that an investigation was being opened into the shooting.

Local sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces sealed the entire area following the shooting, preventing people from approaching the girl, while additional forces deployed heavily around the scene.
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Muslim woman approaching border cops shot in leg

Woman wearing a burqa shot after arousing suspicion of soldiers and failing to heed orders to stop; aiming to neutralize, soldiers moderately wound woman; no weapons found in her possession.

by Yishai Porat for Ynet News |Published:  05.27.18 , 23:19

Border Police officers opened fire on a woman who they suspected aimed to harm them near Yekutiel Adam Street in Jerusalem.
 
The paramilitary soldiers said their suspicion was aroused after the woman started slowly approaching them, who was wearing a Burqa, which they feared may be concealing a weapon or an explosive device.
 
After the woman failed to heed their calls to stop, the security forces opened fire, aiming at her legs.
 
Video footage of the incident shows the officers, stepping slowly backwards with weapons drawn and pointed directly at her, shouting in Arabic for the woman to stop while she keeps walking steadily towards them.

Several seconds later, a single gunshot is heard, and the woman is seen collapsing to the ground.

The woman was evacuated in moderate condition to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the capital. No weapon was found in her possession.

An investigation into the incident has been opened.
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by IMEMC News May 28, 2018 2:55 PM

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said Israeli soldiers conducted, on Sunday at night and Monday at dawn, extensive and violent searched of homes and property in several parts of the occupied West Bank, and abducted 28 Palestinians, including 15 in Ramallah.
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It is worth mentioning that an Israeli court remanded a wounded Palestinian woman, identified as Khawla Sbeih, 43, until June 6th.

Mofeed al-Haj, a lawyer with the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the woman is currently at Shaare Zedek Israeli Medical Center after the soldiers shot her, on Sunday at night, in Shu’fat neighborhood, in Jerusalem.

The army said the soldiers shot the woman in her legs when she failed to heed to their command, after ordering her to stop.