from among casual male acquaintances and strangers, and executed them at close range. And like Homolka, Wuornos was not above working the gender myths to her advantage, claiming at trial that her seven victims, all of whom had been in the process of buying her sexual services, had assaulted or threatened her, and that by shooting them in the head she was acting in self-defence – a claim she later retracted.

In Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice (1992), Helena Kennedy makes the point that women convicted of violent crime are often ‘thought to have breached sacred notions of what is deemed to be truly female’ and disproportionately punished. She explains that, until recently, in domestic violence cases, the defence of provocation was effectively closed to women perpetratorsIsraeli military: 4 soldiers wounded in Gaza border blast

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Saturday that four soldiers were wounded, two seriously, in an explosion along the Israeli border with Gaza.

The military said all four were evacuated for medical treatment. In response, the military said one of its tanks struck an observation post in the southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian officials said the target belonged to the Islamic Jihad militant group and that there were no casualties on the Palestinian side.

Israel typically strikes Hamas, the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza, for all attacks emanating from the territory, regardless of who carries them out.

In the post 2014 war reality established along the volatile frontier, Israel generally carries out limited retaliations to any militant provocations in Gaza. The