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18 year old Palestinian mother abused at home tries to get IDF soldier to kill her
A Palestinian woman carrying a suspicious object was moderately wounded by IDF fire on Friday morning near the Bekaot checkpoint in the Jordan Valley, north of Jericho.
The soldiers shot at the woman’s lower body after shooting in the air and after she did not heed their calls to stop advancing towards them, the military said.
After the woman was shot, the soldiers discovered she was carrying a toy gun. She was evacuated to Haemek Hospital in Afula in moderate condition.
An officer of the Civil Administration who interrogated the wounded woman asked her why she acted in the way she did. She showed him bruise marks on her hands and said she wanted to kill herself after having been abused in her house. The woman is a 18 year old, married with a child.
The IDF said troops at the checkpoint acted according to protocol.
Three years ago, a gunman shot and killed an IDF soldier at the same checkpoint. IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Ro’i Farjun was killed at there in August 2006, after a Palestinian opened fire at him. Troops returned fire, killing the gunman (Jpost).
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This is very sad that people can be so desperate to end their own life all because of the torment caused by another human being.
In America they have safe houses for victims of domestic violence. They are not always available, many women are killed every year by men they knew.
This demonstrates the discipline of the IDF soldiers. It would have been hard to blame them if they had killed her.