Palestinian woman killed in W.Bank camp: witnesses

Palestinian witnesses said the 48-year-old woman was shot by troops who were patrolling the camp for gunmen after she left her home to see what route her husband, a cleaner, should take to avoid the soldiers. Medics later pronounced her dead.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said an initial investigation showed there was no gunfire from troops at all in the camp, which is a militant stronghold, and that the army would continue to check the reports.

Israel often patrols many Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank in search of suspected militants. Dozens of civilians have been killed in more than five years of violence in the crossfire of clashes between troops and gunmen.

On Saturday, Israel killed four Palestinians in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip that targeted a top Islamic Jihad militant in a car, killing him and part of a family -- a boy, his mother and his grandmother -- who were near the vehicle at the time.

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