Israeli occupation troops shelled a village in the West Bank city of Ramallah early on Monday, seriously injuring an elderly Palestinian woman, reported the Palestinian news agency, WAFA.
The agency said that several houses were destroyed in the Israeli attack on the village of Beit Reema.
The woman was identified as Zohour Rimawi, 60.
In another development, a bomb exploded early Monday without claiming any casualties at an Israeli roadblock on the border with the West Bank near the northern Israeli Arab town of Um el Fahem, an Israeli military source was quoted as saying by Haaretz.
The blast occurred near two Jeeps belonging to border guards, which were preventing Palestinians from entering Israel because of the current blockade of the Palestinian territories.
Earlier, nine mortar shells were fired Sunday at two Jewish settlements and a border crossing in the Gaza Strip, causing minor damage, the source said.
Since the outbreak of the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict last September, Reuters reports that Palestinians have killed approximately 88 Israelis with weapons ranging from stones and knives to machineguns and car bombs. The latest suicide bombing raises that toll by at least 20. Israeli military sources have reported well over 600 injuries to Israelis of Jewish descent.
In the same time period, according to CNN, Israeli soldiers and armed Jewish settlers have killed 13 Arab Israelis and 450 Palestinians with weapons ranging from machineguns and tanks to US-made Apache helicopter gunships and F-16s. The most recent Israeli tank attack raises that death toll to 453.
According to Amnesty International, nearly 100 of the Palestinians killed were children.
In addition, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society has reported over 14,000 Palestinians wounded.
Jewish author Noam Chomsky, who according to a New York Times Book Review article is “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” has been quoted as saying: “State terrorism is an extreme form of terrorism, generally much worse than individual terrorism because it has the resources of a state behind it.” – Albawaba.com
