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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 10. Oktober 2004 / Time Line October 10, 2004
Version 3.510/10/2004
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) kills
Palestinian schoolgirl
By Mohammed abu-Asaker
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have killed, in cold blood, a
13-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl from the Yebna refugee camp.
Iman Sameer Al-Hams was shot and killed by 20 live bullets while
she was on her way to an UNRWA school in the Gaza strip city of
Rafah, near the Palestinian-Egyptian borders.
According to eye witnesses, the area was quiet at the time. Iman
was shot at from an Israeli army observation tower in the Tal
al-Sultan neighborhood of the town of Rafah, on the border with
Egypt. She died instantly.
Israeli occupation soldiers were at a close distance to the girl,
and could see that she was wearing her school uniform.
Dr Ali Musa, the head of Abu Yousef An-Najar hospital in the Gaza
Strip, said that "the girl's body was riddled with bullets from
head to toe, including 5 bullets in the head".
Palestinian children are not safe from Israeli bullets, be it in
their homes, in the street, or even at United Nations schools. On
September 27, 2004, Raged Adnan al-Assar died of the wounds she had
sustained when she was shot by an Israeli soldier as she sat at her
desk at the UNRWA Elementary School in Khan Younis on September 7,
2004 .
There have been several reports that the Israeli snipers frequently
shoot Palestinian civilians to prove their marksmanship. This might
explain why 200 Palestinian children have been shot in the head,
and why 84% of Palestinian civilians, killed by the IOF, were shot
in the upper part of the body.
As Israel's so-called "Day of Penitence" operation has entered its
seventh day, the total number of Palestinians killed has reached at
least 80. Most of these are civilians.
Literature:
Army chief 'emptied his magazine' at girl in Gaza
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=571222&host=3&dir=75
12 October 2004.
Dead Palestinian Girl 'Riddled With Bullets'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5037021-103552,00.html
by Conal Urquhart
© 2004 Guardian Newspapers Limited
A Schoolgirl Riddled with Bullets. And No One is to
Blame
Questions remain after Israeli unit commander is cleared of
Palestinian pupil's death
by Chris McGreal in Rafah
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1021-03.htm
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