Settler’s false alarm takes the life of Amal Taqatqa - The Palestinian Information Center
AL-KHALIL,
(PIC)-- Amal Taqtaqa, 22, was shot and killed Monday in cold blood
while on her way from Beit Fujar town to al-Khalil city center to
prepare for her wedding planned to be held a few weeks later.
Israeli forces suddenly opened their machine-gun fire at the young
woman after receiving a false alarm saying that she plans to carry out a
stabbing attack.
Israeli settlers and soldiers have received
orders to open fire at the entrance to Beit Fujar town in case of any
suspicious attack. Unfortunately, Amal was walking alone at the
meantime.
Eyewitnesses confirmed that a group of settlers and
Israeli soldiers chased a young woman at the main road leading to the
town before opening fire at her.
The young woman was hit with
twenty bullets by Israeli soldiers and settlers and transferred in an
Israeli ambulance vehicle to Haddasah hospital after preventing the
Palestinian Red Crescent from reaching her after the shooting.
Shortly after the cold-blooded murder, Israeli and Arab media outlets
published false information about the victim, claiming that she is an
ex-detainee who had previously carried out a similar stabbing attack in
the same place.
Amal’s family denied the media allegations, confirming that their girl was never been arrested.
Amal was on her way to the city's shopping center to prepare for her wedding a month later, the family clarified.
Large numbers of IOF soldiers raided Amal’s home a few hours after the gun-fire attack and arrested her father.
Israeli media outlets later published photos from the scene showed a
wood-handled steak knife allegedly used as the attack weapon, and
conducted interviews with the settler who claimed being injured during
the attack.
However, eyewitnesses confirmed that the settler narrated a fabricated story.
The incident was carried out at the major crossroad near the Gush
Etzion bloc that is located between al-Khalil and Bethlehem. The
mentioned area is considered a hot spot where Palestinian citizens are
usually arrested for allegedly being involved in stone-throwing attacks.
During the past two years, a big number of minors were nabbed in Beit
Fujar town, while several military campaigns were carried out in the
town.
