Israeli troops shoot at Palestinian women

I'm having a difficult time sorting this story out in my mind, so I don't think I'm going to comment on it at all other than to say it's a terrible shame that things have deteriorated this far in Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Two Palestinian women have been killed during a stand-off near a Gaza mosque while trying to rescue about 60 Palestinian fighters besieged inside.

The events came on the third day of an Israeli assault on the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, the largest operation Israel has conducted in the Gaza Strip in months.

On Friday, about 200 Palestinian women marched towards the al-Nasir mosque in Beit Hanoun, which Israeli forces surrounded on Thursday, in an attempt to rescue fighters who had taken shelter in the mosque during the Israeli incursion.

The women had responded to an appeal from Hamas broadcast on local radio stations.

Israeli forces opened fire on the women, killing two and injuring six others.

I'll only add that reports seem to differ as to the numbers. A report in the Independent said one woman dead, ten injured.