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A Palestinian woman (R) approaching IDF soldiers at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, in an alleged attempt at a stabbing attack, May 2 2021. (screenshot: Twitter)
Israeli security forces shot a Palestinian woman brandishing a knife who tried to carry out a stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, south of Jerusalem, the Israel Defense Forces said Sunday.
The incident came amid rising tensions over the postponement of Palestinian elections, as well as unrest surrounding the holy month of Ramadan.
The woman, a 60-year-old resident of the nearby village of Husan, approached a group of soldiers with a knife in her hand and tried to stab the troops, the military said.
One of the soldiers then shot her in the upper body, and she was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center in critical condition, according to the United Hatzalah medical organization.
Doctors pronounced her dead several hours later, the hospital says. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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When Passover last year became the first Jewish holiday to take place since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, Jews the world over struggled with novel questions about how to celebrate the holiday amid a dangerous viral surge.
This year, Passover arrives amid an accelerating vaccination drive that’s raising hopes and lifting restrictions around the world. But the pandemic is still not in the rearview mirror.
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At the beginning of December, Britain’s health system became the first to begin vaccinating the population using Pfizer-BioNTech’s messenger RNA coronavirus vaccine.
It was the first time that messenger RNA technology, which had been used in research for about 30 years, was being used to treat the public at large. Since then, roughly 100 million people have been inoculated using mRNA vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna. The information now available about possible side effects demonstrates the vaccines are safe – even safer than many experts had anticipated.
Despite the findings, injecting unfamiliar substances into the body, particularly using new technology, has prompted a degree of public concern. Even now, these concerns have spurred on a small group of longtime anti-vaxxers who have been joined by opinion leaders in spreading false information about the COVID-19 pandemic.