Details Emerge About American Woman Shot Dead By Israeli Soldiers

Suraida sat in the passenger seat holding her 9-month-old son Muhsin as Morad drove their car. A band of the notorious under cover units, undercover Israeli soldiers dressed like Arabs, stood in the shadows of an upcoming intersection

By Ra’ed N. Tayeh for American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice

It was reported widely on Friday, March 29 that the first victim of Israel' s latest siege on the West Bank city of Ramallah was a woman who was shot while driving her car. What most media outlets did not report, however, are the circumstances of the woman's death, as well as her identity.

Suraida Saleh, the 21-year-old woman gunned down by Israeli soldiers, was an American, born in Washington, DC. The details of her death have emerged in an exclusive interview that Global Peace conducted over the telephone with Suraida's brother and father. Both are locked inside their home in Ramallah, along with other members of their family, and have been unable for four days to retrieve Suraida's body from the morgue to give her a proper burial.