On Saturday, Israeli armed forces shot a two -year -old girl in her house in her west bank, while she was dinner with her family, according to health officers and family members.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health says that Laila Muhammad al-Khatib was shot during an Israeli military attack in the village of Ash-Shuhada south of Jenin.
“They started shooting through the windows without warning,” said Ghada ASOUS, the grandmother of the toddler. “Suddenly the special forces attacked us and shot through the windows.”
Media reports state that the girl’s pregnant mother has also suffered light injuries. Pictures from the scene showed ball holes in the windows of the house.
A funeral took place on Sunday.
The Israeli defense forces (IDF) Say that troops on a fight against terrorism had fired on a structure in which alleged militant had barricaded themselves. In an explanation, it was said that the reports were checked that uninvolved civilians were injured.
Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch, announced CBC News that the group had documented a wide range of illegal murders of children and other civilians in West Bank.
“In this special case, it speaks to a pattern of such a ruthless disregard for the Palestinian life that spectators and others are often regularly involved in the murders,” he said.
Israeli armed forces killed at least nine Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in a large operation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is to “defeat terrorism”. It is afraid that the Gaza Red Pauste will be resumed there.
Shakir says that the recent escalation of Israeli military violence in West Bank was “dramatic” and “alarming”.
According to Hamas and Israeli military officers, an Israeli air raid has killed two Palestinian militant in the city of Tulkarm.
In Jenin, further north, a great surgery with hundreds of Israeli troops, which were supported by armored vehicles, drones and helicopters, seemed to go into a second week, with the smoke over the refugee camp next to the city.
The attack in Jenin, which is seen as a turntable for Palestinian resistance groups, began the day after an armistice in the Gaza Strip became effective.
Tanks Bulldozer and Excavators have destroyed buildings and roads in the warehouse – a crowded community that was built for descendants of Palestinians who fled in 1948 in the middle of the creation of Israel or were forced from their houses. Thousands of people have left their houses.
At least 16 Palestinians have been killed in Jenin and the surrounding area since the operation began a week ago, including four as fighters of Hamas and Iranian -supported Islamic jihad.
The International Court of Justice in Haag said in July that the occupation of the West Bank violates international law by Israel and should end its presence in occupied Palestinian territories as quickly as possible. Israel rejected the results.
