In The Circumstances, Was This The Correct Action To Take?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3245438/Dramatic-moment-Israeli-soldier-points-rifle-veiled-teenage-Palestinian-student-shot-dead-moments-later-attempting-stab-West-Bank-checkpoint-guard.html

[Gromit]

If the facts as presented her are true, then this person posed a serious threat and needed to be stopped. A taser could have done the same job of stopping the attacker, but a soldier has to use whatever weapon is at his (or her) disposal.

I am a little suspicious by the term 'apparently' tried to attack a guard. It will be interesting to see if that can be corobarated.

[bazwillrun]

!00% justified....

Taser ?, yeah right.... and if shes not fully incapacitated , a bomb hidden under the fancy dress costume can still be triggered

[Gromit]

If they had a bomb, why stab the guard and not just set off the bomb?

That said, the local population must know that the IDF take no prisoners. Possible suicide by soldier.

Let's just see if we can clear up the 'apparently' with something more conclusive.

[Gromit]

As I suspected, no evidence she had a knife, and eyewitness reports differ from the Israeli version...

New Tork Times
// RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian woman early Tuesday at a checkpoint in Hebron in the West Bank. The Israeli military said the woman had pulled out a knife, but a European advocate for Palestinian rights, who said he had witnessed the episode, said the woman appeared to be only trying to open her purse for inspection. //

[Gromit]

// According to the IDF’s story, Hashlamoun was in critical condition after being shot in the legs, and later succumbed to her injuries.
The 18-year-old died of her wounds in the Shaare Zedek Medical Centre later in the day.
The hospital’s spokesperson said Hadil had been “terribly injured, and underwent surgery upon her arrival,” Maan News Agency reported.
“Three operations were performed on my daughter,” Salah Hashlamoun, Hadil’s father told local reporters. “A part of her intestines had to be removed. But the bullet in her chest was what killed her.” //

[anotheoldgit]

Proof of how dangerous it is to wear a burka,especially at at such a sensitive security check point.

[atalanta]

Israeli soldiers know well that a burka can conceal a man, an explosives belt or any kind of gun or other weapon. The Israeli army is very highly trained, and only too well aware of the possibility of instigating an incident which can be escalated by the palestinians. It is quite possible that this woman set out to be a martyr, to give her fellow palestinians a reason for an uprising.

[youngmafbog]

Looks to me like a provocation whatever the 'evidence' Both sides will calim something different(no change there) but it must boil down to the fact the woman must have known what the IDF were like so why do it?

Both sides in this continuing conflict are unbelievable. I simply cannot see any end to it.