A Palestinian woman was killed on Saturday in the occupied West Bank after being attacked by Israeli settlers, who pelted her with stones.
Aisha Rabi, 48, was traveling with her husband and two daughters to their home in Bidya early Saturday when their vehicle was pelted with stones, said her cousin, Issam Rabi.
A source at the Nablus hospital where she was brought said she was dead on arrival and that she had suffered a head injury. Her relatives said an autopsy was to be carried out at another hospital.
The woman's husband said he was driving by a settlement late on Friday after dark along a main road near the Palestinian city of Nablus and that he could not clearly see who pelted the car.
"The stones came from the side where the settlement is. I could hear the people speak Hebrew, but I didn't see them," he said.
The area is near several ultra-nationalist Jewish settlements.
Reuters was unable to independently verify the circumstances of the incident but footage of the car, which a Reuters cameraman said bore Palestinian license plates, showed what appeared to be a blood-stained broken brick at the foot of the passenger seat, which was covered in shattered glass and blood
stains.
Israeli Police Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said: "Police arrived in the area and have opened an investigation into the circumstances behind the incident reported."
