Mourners carried the body of Ghofran Warasnah, killed by Israeli security forces after she approached a soldier with a knife, during her funeral on June 1, 2022 in the Al-Aroub refugee camp in the West Bank city of Hebron. HAZEM BADER AFP HEBRON, West Bank - A knife-wielding Palestinian woman threatened an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank and was shot dead on Wednesday, an account that was disputed by Palestinian officials.
Since the US-sponsored peace talks stalled in 2014, violence in territories where Palestinians seek statehood has simmered. Recent weeks have seen an escalation, including deadly Palestinian attacks inside Israel.
The Israeli army said an assailant armed with a knife advanced toward an IDF Israeli Defence Force soldier who was conducting routine security activities near Al Aroub village.
The soldiers responded with live fire.
The woman's death was confirmed by a hospital in the nearby Palestinian city of Hebron.
The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned the killing as a field execution.