An American activist has been shot and killed during a protest near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials.
The activist was shot during a weekly demonstration against an Israeli settlement near the Palestinian village of Beita, according to a resident. Eyewitnesses and Palestinian officials said that the Israeli military was responsible. CNN has asked the Israel Defense Forces for comment on the accusation. Dr. Hisham Dweikat, a resident of Beita, took part in the demonstration.
“We say to the international community, this woman held American citizenship,” the governor of Nablus, Ghassan Daghlas, told journalists at Rafidia hospital. “But the bullets did not differentiate between a Palestinian, a child, an old man, or a woman, and between one nationality and another.
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