Israeli forces shoot Palestinian woman over alleged stabbing attack

A 60-year-old Palestinian woman was shot by an Israeli security guard on Sunday with the guard claiming that she had pulled out a knife at a light rail station in Sheikh Jarrah, occupied East Jerusalem.

The woman was shot on Haim Bar Lev Street, near the Israeli national police headquarters. She was arrested shortly afterwards, according to the media.
The security guard was unharmed, and shot the assailant in the leg.

Israeli forces tightened the security measures in the area following the incident.
On Friday Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man in Umm Safa village, north of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.

He was identified by Palestinian media as Abdel-Jawad Saleh.

Residents of the village had gathered to join a rally against the establishment of a new settlement outpost near the southern entrance to the village last month.

Muhammad Bahr, a member of Umm Safa's village council, told Wafa news agency that Israeli soldiers shot and killed Saleh. This is while Umm Safa, along with other villages near Ramallah and Nablus, has come under violent settler mob attacks in recent weeks that left at least one Palestinian killed.

Israeli soldiers and settlers often attack them to disperse their protests, leading to the wounding and killing of Palestinians.

Nearly 700,000 settlers live in more than 250 settlements and outposts across the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law.

Since Monday, Israeli forces have killed 18 Palestinians in one of the most deadly weeks in the West Bank for months.

According to a Middle East Eye tally, 192 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire this year, including 33 children - at a rate of more than one fatality per day.