jcl-be
6 oktober 2004, 01:25
Rafah, Gaza Strip - Israeli soldiers shot dead a 13-year-old
Palestinian schoolgirl in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday after she
approached an army watchtower in a tense border zone, witnesses said.
An Israeli military source said the girl was shot inside a restricted
area when soldiers suspected she had a bomb. Palestinian medics said
she had been hit by 20 bullets.
Iman al-Hams and two other girls, all of them wearing school uniforms,
passed a watchtower in Rafah refugee camp near the Egyptian border, a
scene of frequent violence in a 4-year-old uprising, Palestinian
witnesses said.
"Israeli soldiers stormed the area, the girl left the bag and tried to
run," said one. "Bullets hit the bag and then soldiers opened fire on
the girl."
"She was peppered with bullets, in the head, chest, legs"
An Israeli military source said the girl entered an area that was
clearly marked with no-entry signs at a time there had been shooting
from Rafah.
Soldiers opened fire towards her after she dropped her bag and ran.
They suspected that the bag contained a bomb, the source said, but had
not yet checked.
Rafah is well away from the northern Gaza Strip, where Israeli troops
have killed 67 Palestinians in a six-day-old offensive launched after
a rocket fired by militants killed two children in an Israeli town. -
Reuters
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1096970580542B253
Palestinian schoolgirl in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday after she
approached an army watchtower in a tense border zone, witnesses said.
An Israeli military source said the girl was shot inside a restricted
area when soldiers suspected she had a bomb. Palestinian medics said
she had been hit by 20 bullets.
Iman al-Hams and two other girls, all of them wearing school uniforms,
passed a watchtower in Rafah refugee camp near the Egyptian border, a
scene of frequent violence in a 4-year-old uprising, Palestinian
witnesses said.
"Israeli soldiers stormed the area, the girl left the bag and tried to
run," said one. "Bullets hit the bag and then soldiers opened fire on
the girl."
"She was peppered with bullets, in the head, chest, legs"
An Israeli military source said the girl entered an area that was
clearly marked with no-entry signs at a time there had been shooting
from Rafah.
Soldiers opened fire towards her after she dropped her bag and ran.
They suspected that the bag contained a bomb, the source said, but had
not yet checked.
Rafah is well away from the northern Gaza Strip, where Israeli troops
have killed 67 Palestinians in a six-day-old offensive launched after
a rocket fired by militants killed two children in an Israeli town. -
Reuters
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1096970580542B253