Palestinian sources said Mariam Ayyad, in her sixties, had tried to block the path of IDF soldiers who came to Abu Dis, near Jerusalem, overnight to detain students lodging in a property she owned. They said IDF soldiers shoved the woman who then hit the pavement.
The director of the clinic where Ayyad was taken says she arrived dead, with a broken skull and possible internal bleeding.
An IDF spokesperson said Ayyad fell on a stairway in the overnight raid but attributed the fall to an apparent heart attack. The spokesperson added that family members said she had a heart condition. It denied that any soldier pushed Ayyad or caused her to fall, and said that an army doctor had tried to help Ayyad before pronouncing her dead.
"She went outside in order to prevent them from arresting someone in her house," one of the students, who would only be identified by his nickname, Abu Yaffa, told Reuters. "They knocked her down and there was blood on her head."
Nesrin Jasan, an Abu Dis doctor who examined Ayyad said, "The cause of death was being pushed to the ground and being struck in the head."
The incident looked likely to stoke tensions in the West Bank, where
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has maintained control since breaking with Hamas rivals who routed his forces in the Gaza Strip in June 2007.
IDF soldiers killed a 14-year-old Palestinian from Asira al-Kabaliya village in the northern West Bank on Saturday, saying he was about to throw a firebomb at them.
In another incident last week, armed settlers went on a rampage in the West Bank settlement of Asira al-Kabaliya, injuring at least eight Palestinians. The settlers were responding to the stabbing of a 10-year-old Israeli boy by a Palestinian at the illegal outpost of Shalhevet Yam near Yitzhar. -link
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