Palestinian killed by Israeli fire near Hebron

A 21-year-old Palestinian woman died after being hit in the face by Israeli gunfire in the southern West Bank yesterday, medics said. Lubna Hanash was killed in a shooting outside a college near Al-Arrub refugee camp, some eight kilometers (five miles) north of Hebron, medics said. Witnesses told AFP a civilian car with Israeli plates stopped on the main Hebron-Bethlehem road and two men wearing military fatigues got out and began shooting towards a nearby Palestinian college. Medics said another two people were injured by gunshot wounds. The military had no immediate information on the incident. In a separate development, a 15-year-old Palestinian who was hit in the face by Israeli gunfire on Friday, died of his injuries, an Israeli hospital spokeswoman told AFP. Their deaths raised to six the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire since Jan. 10. The teenager who died, Saleh Amarin, had been seriously hurt by a bullet fired by Israeli troops during clashes in Aida refugee camp north of Bethlehem, medics said. He was transferred to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein-Kerem hospital for further treatment. At the time, the Israeli military said troops had fired at the legs of a group of 30 Palestinians which was attacking them near Rachel’s Tomb.