Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians whom soldiers said were attempting to attack Israelis with knives at a West Bank checkpoint on Wednesday.
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Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the pair were “armed with knives” and “came towards the border guards” to attack them.
“As soon as the two crossed, [Israeli forces] started screaming “Go back, go back”, and then they began shooting”, he said.
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The Palestinian health ministry identified the woman as Maram Abu Ismail, 23, from the nearby West Bank village of Beit Surik, and her brother, Ibrahim Saleh Taha, 16.
When they were ordered to stop, the woman pulled a knife out of her bag and waved it at an officer near her, the police statement said.
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“The first one they shot was the girl, the boy tried to go backward, when they fired seven bullets at him”.
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Witnesses are heard in video footage of the scene following the incident claiming that a Palestinian boy approached the woman after she was killed before being shot by Israeli forces as well.
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Eassa Qaraqe’, Head of Palestine Liberation Organization Detainees Affairs Commission, told Xinhua that Israeli authorities released Al-Wawi near the Jbara military crossing, beside the West Bank city of Tulkarem, and that she headed to her hometown close to Hebron, southern West Bank.
