Wisconsin State Journal · Madison, Wisconsin · 7 December 1993
CP-1993-006
Four Arabs die in blast; 3 slain in Gaza
TERROR: Soldier shoots a woman who stabbed him in the face; bomb victims presumed to have been building a device
Associated Press
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“JERUSALEM — Seven Palestinians were killed in the occupied lands, including four who died in an explosion in the West Bank, the army and Palestinian reporters said today.
In the Gaza Strip town of Rafah, an Israeli soldier shot and killed an Arab woman after she attacked him with a knife… The victims were identified as Mazouz Balouneh, 27; Faisal Balouneh, 28; Naim Balouneh, 18; and Khaled Ramadin, 25… The Rafah incident started when a woman standing in front of the military government pretended to faint, a Palestinian reporter said.
When a soldier approached to help her, she pulled a knife and stabbed him in the face. The soldier fired, killing her. The soldier suffered minor injuries, the army said.
The death brought to 850 the number of Palestinians slain by Israelis during the Palestinian uprising that erupted in December 1987… The deaths brought to 431 the number of Palestinians slain by fellow Arabs during the uprising, most on suspicion of helping Israel.”
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The kicker over this story is
TERROR, and the story it sits over includes an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian woman. The four men killed in the blast are named. She is not.
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"Four Arabs die in blast; 3 slain in Gaza," Wisconsin State Journal, 7 December 1993, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1993-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1993-006
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