Palestinian woman shot dead by Israeli forces near Bethlehem

A Palestinian woman has been shot dead by Israeli forces near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian health ministry said.

The woman, aged in her 40s, died after she suffered a torn artery and massive blood loss, the ministry said on Sunday, reports Al Jazeera.

She was identified as Ghada Ibrahim Sabatien, a widowed mother of six, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

The Israeli army said troops fired warning shots in the air when a suspect approached and then “fired towards the suspect’s lower body”, near the southern town of Husan.

Earlier, Israeli soldiers launched a raid for the second day running into the West Bank district of Jenin, home of the suspected attackers who launched recent deadly attacks in the Tel Aviv area. At least 10 people were wounded in confrontations in Jenin, as well as Jericho and Tulkarem.

Twenty-four arrests were made in various occupied West Bank cities, the Palestinian Prisoners Club announced.

The military operation came after a man from Jenin allegedly killed three Israelis and wounded more than a dozen others in a popular Tel Aviv nightlife area on Thursday evening.

On Friday, Israel said it had killed the alleged attacker, Raad Hazem, 28.

A total of 14 people have been killed in four attacks in Israel since March 22, including another shooting incident in Bnei Brak, an Orthodox Jewish city near Tel Aviv.

Over the same period, at least 10 Palestinians have been killed.