Irish ‘human shield’ protecting kids is shot in leg

AN Irish peace activist is recovering in hospital after being shot by Israeli soldiers while acting as a human shield in a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin.

Irish ‘human shield’ protecting kids is shot in leg

Caoimhe Butterly, 24, a member of the Irish-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said she was wounded in the thigh while trying to shield Palestinian children from Israeli gunfire.

In a separate gunbattle in the same camp, a British UN worker, Ian John Hook, 53, was shot dead. Mr Hook was working in his office in a small UN compound within the camp when he was killed.

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