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CNN
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The Israeli army admitted Monday that its troops shot Jana Zakarneh, a 16-year-old Palestinian lady who died all the way through a raid within the occupied West Bank on Sunday night time, announcing she was once killed by way of “unintentional” Israeli hearth “aimed at armed gunmen.”
“Following an initial inquiry, it was determined that the girl who was killed was hit by unintentional fire aimed at armed gunmen on a roof in the area from which the force was fired upon,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) remark mentioned.
“The IDF and its commanders regret any harm to uninvolved civilians, including those who are in a combat environment and in close proximity to armed terrorists during exchanges of fire,” the remark endured.
Jana’s uncle, Majed Zakarneh, instructed CNN on Monday that his niece “was shot with four bullets, two to her face, one to her neck, and one to her shoulder.”
The Israeli army had been “heavily shooting everywhere. Jana was inside the house with her family and when she heard people screaming she went to the rooftop to see what is happening,” Zakarneh mentioned.
“Twenty minutes after the soldiers left the neighborhood, her father went to look for her … He found her lying on the floor with a face full of blood,” Zakarneh mentioned.
Speaking sooner than the IDF admitted duty, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz mentioned he sought after to specific “sorrow for her death, as for any death of someone who was not involved in terrorism, if that was indeed the case.”
The professional Palestinian information company WAFA says some other two Palestinians had been injured and 3 had been arrested all the way through the raid. The IDF showed 3 had been arrested “suspected of terror involvement.”
A common strike was once declared in Jenin on Monday following Jana’s killing, WAFA mentioned, including that “hundreds of people” took to the streets to protest “ongoing Israeli aggression”.
In a remark on Monday, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh referred to as at the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, “to investigate the crimes of the occupation and put Israel on the blacklist.” Gamba is lately on a consult with to the West Bank and Gaza.
“The murder of the child Jana Majdi Zakarneh adds to the horrific murders of children that the occupation soldiers continue to commit,” Shtayyeh mentioned.
Zakarneh’s demise brings the whole collection of Palestinians killed within the occupied West Bank to this point in 2022 to 166, a degree no longer noticed in additional than a decade, in keeping with the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Israel says maximum killed were militants or enticing violently with squaddies. But human rights teams say bystanders have additionally been killed.
Israel has additionally recorded the very best quantity deaths from Palestinian assaults this 12 months in just about two decades, with 31 killed.
The IDF mentioned in its remark that it had arrested 3 other people within the raid.
“Security forces apprehended three wanted individuals suspected of terror involvement,” the remark learn.
According to the IDF, the suspects threw explosives and fired on the IDF squaddies, who replied with “live fire.” No IDF accidents had been reported.
On Thursday, a 16-year-old boy died after he was once shot by way of Israeli forces in Ramallah, in keeping with a separate remark by way of the Palestinian Ministry of Health closing week.
“Al-Rimawi, 16-years-old, was injured by two bullets from the back. The first exited from his chest and the second exited from the abdomen,” that remark mentioned.
The IDF mentioned in a remark that Israeli squaddies “shot toward suspects” for throwing rocks and paint bottles at automobiles “endangered the lives of passersby” close to the city of Aboud in Ramallah.
