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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tear-gas-kills-woman-in-west-bank.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A Palestinian woman died, overcome by tear gas fired by soldiers at a West Bank protest" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-tear-gas-kills-woman-in-west-bank.jpg" alt="A Palestinian woman died, overcome by tear gas fired by soldiers at a West Bank protest"/></a></p>
<p>The Israeli military has said it is investigating the death of a Palestinian woman overcome by tear gas fired by soldiers at a West Bank protest.</p>
<p>In an unrelated incident, a Palestinian man was killed in the West Bank after trying to attack Israeli troops at a checkpoint, Palestinian and Israeli security officials said.</p>
<p>Contradictory accounts were given of the circumstances surrounding the death of the 36-year-old protester, Jawaher Abu Rahmeh, a day after she inhaled the gas at the weekly demonstration against Israel&#8217;s West Bank separation barrier in the village of Bilin.</p>
<p>Tear gas is meant to be a non-lethal crowd control method and is used routinely by Israeli troops at protests. But doctors say the gas can kill on rare occasions if a victim has a pre-existing condition.</p>
<p>Mohammed Abu Rahmeh, a relative of the woman, said she had suffered from asthma since she was a child. Rateb Abu Rahmeh, a doctor and a spokesman for the Bilin protesters, said she had a &#8220;weak immune system.&#8221; Her parents said she was healthy and did not have asthma.</p>
<p>Dr Mohammed Eideh, who treated Abu Rahmeh in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, said she died of &#8220;respiratory failure and then cardiac arrest&#8221; caused by tear gas inhalation. He said he did not know if she had a pre-existing condition. Another doctor said she was initially released from hospital, later collapsed, was readmitted and then died. Dr Eideh said she had not been released.</p>
<p>Michael Sfard, the Israeli lawyer representing the woman&#8217;s family, said troops used &#8220;incredible quantities of gas&#8221; at the protest, a weekly event that often deteriorates into violent clashes between protesters and soldiers.</p>
<p>Abu Rahmeh&#8217;s brother, Bassem Abu Rahmeh, was killed at a similar demonstration in 2009 after being hit by an Israeli tear gas canister, becoming the 17th Palestinian to die at barrier protests since 2004.</p>
<p>The military described Friday&#8217;s protest as a &#8220;violent and illegal riot&#8221; and released photographs it identified as being from the demonstration showing Palestinian youths using slingshots and a firebomb against troops. The military said it was investigating Abu Rahmeh&#8217;s death but had not been allowed to see the Palestinian medical reports.</p>
<p>In the incident at the West Bank checkpoint, a Palestinian worker in his 20s attacked soldiers with a glass bottle after he was denied permission to cross, Palestinian security officials said. The Israeli military said the man approached troops with a broken bottle and ignored calls to stop before he was shot.</p>
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