Israeli soldier shot, slightly wounded in Hebron

An Israeli woman soldier was shot and slightly wounded in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday, rescue services said.

The young woman was evacuated to Jerusalem's Shaare Tzedek hospital, an official said.

The shooting happened near a disputed holy site in the heart of Hebron's Old City, which is known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque and to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs.

Some 500 Jewish settlers live under tight guard among around 200,000 Palestinians in the southern West Bank city, where several anti-Israel attacks have been carried out in the past weeks.

Photo: File picture of a wounded Israeli soldier arriving at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem (AFP/ Times Of Israel)