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To: craig crawford who wrote (2496)	12/3/2002 9:22:57 PM
From: StormRider	Read Replies (2) of 6945

ISRAELI TROOPS KILL PALESTINIAN WOMAN, 95 Mohammed Assadi, Reuters, 12/3/02 RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers on Tuesday shot dead a 95-year-old Palestinian woman who was taking a taxi home after a medical check-up in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian witnesses and medics said. They said troops opened fire on the van the woman was riding in when it tried to bypass rubble that Israeli forces had used to block the road between Ramallah and her home village of Atara… Medics said the woman, Fatima Hassan, who was on her way home from a medical clinic, was hit by a bullet in the back and that two other women in the taxi were wounded… Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said: "We condemn this war crime of killing in cold blood a 95-year-old woman and we hold Israel fully responsible..." Troops have maintained a blockade of Palestinian areas during much of the two-year-old Palestinian uprising for independence, and people caught trying to bypass army checkpoints have faced injury or death. The Palestinians call it collective punishment. Israel says it is self-defense.

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