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Opening fire towards a woman and arresting her children
July 9, 2023

On Sunday evening, the guard of the light rail opened fire towards a Palestinian woman at the train station in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the city of Jerusalem, under the pretext that "she attempted to carry out a stabbing attack."

Eyewitnesses reported to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center that the forces opened fired at Mrs. Samira Hirbawi and arrested her and transferred her to the hospital.

The eyewitnesses added that the forces arrested two of Mrs. Hirbawi's sons (a girl and a boy), immediately after shooting their mother.

The Israeli forces closed the area around the light rail station, and spread out in large numbers in the place.