A U.S. State Department spokesperson confirmed the death of the 26-year-old woman on Friday but did not say whether she had been shot by Israeli troops.
By Julia Frankel and Aref Tufana, Associated PressPalestinians walk past a damaged building following an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024.
He and the doctors who treated her released the woman’s name, but the activist organization she was volunteering with, the International Solidarity Movement, said her family had asked she not be identified. Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli who was also participating in the protest, said the shooting occurred shortly after dozens of Palestinians and international activists held a communal prayer on a hillside outside the northern West Bank town of Beita overlooking the Israeli settlement of Evyatar.
Palestinian officials said the killing reflected how Israel has intensified its repression of Palestinian protests in the territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Israeli forces rarely use live ammunition to put down protests inside Israel. But in the West Bank, Palestinian demonstrations are frequently met with live fire.
Hussein Al-Sheikh, the secretary general of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, wrote on X that the killing marked “another crime added to the series of crimes committed daily by the occupation forces.”
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