Israeli soldiers reportedly mistook a Palestinian woman for a suicide bomber and shot her. Witnesses said the woman, a deaf farmer in her late 30s, climbed over Israel’s West Bank security barrier to reach her fields and did not hear soldiers’ orders to halt.
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