UN envoy expresses shock over Israel’s killing of unarmed Palestinian woman in Bethlehem
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, has slammed Israel’s Sunday killing of a Palestinian woman in Bethlehem city.
In a tweet, the UN wrote on Sunday, “Shocked and disturbed by the killing of an apparently unarmed Palestinian woman by Israel|i security forces in Husan/Bethlehem, in circumstances that seem to indicate she posed no imminent threat.”
“My deepest condolences to her family. Such acts must be thoroughly investigated.”
The Israeli occupation forces shot and critically injured a Palestinian woman, aged in her 40s, near the southern town of Husan, earlier on Sunday.
The woman, identified as Ghada Ibrahim Sabatien, who is a widowed mother of six, was rushed by Palestinian medics to a Beit Jala hospital.
However, she died of her wounds soon after as she suffered a torn artery and massive blood loss, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
The Israeli occupation forces claimed the woman had approached Israeli soldiers “in a suspicious manner.”
However, an Israeli military spokesperson later confirmed that she was unarmed.
In a graphic footage from the scene, the woman can be seen raising her hands. The soldiers then fired at her lower body, causing her to fall down.
Witnesses: "Israeli occupation soldiers bodily search a #Palestinian woman after shooting at and injuring her at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Bethlehem." pic.twitter.com/K8COLcVDms
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) April 10, 2022
Press coverage: "In cold blood… Watch the moment when Israeli occupation forces executed 47-year-old #Palestinian woman Ghada Sabaten, who is a widow and a mother for 6 children, in Housan town west of #Bethlehem" pic.twitter.com/rEdNfzosP7
— AlQastal News (@QastalNewsEn) April 10, 2022
