Troops kill 95-year-old Palestinian woman at car checkpoint

ISRAELI troops killed a 95-year-old woman yesterday when they shot at a car that was driving down a West Bank road closed to Palestinians, a survivor said.

Palestinians Fattier Mohammed Hassan, 95, and another woman, Kifaya Ra’fat, 41, were in the back seat of a car as it reached a checkpoint on the outskirts of Ramallah.

“The soldiers were running towards us, shooting in all directions. They started to hit the windows of the car (with their weapons),” Ms Ra’fat said from her hospital bed.