Israeli forces shot a two -year -old girl in her head in her house in the West Bank on Saturday when she dined with her family, according to health officials and family members.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that Laila Muhammad al-Khatib was killed during an Israeli military raid in the village of Ash-Shuhada, just south of Jenin.
“They started shooting us out of the windows without any warning,” said Ghada Asous, the grandmother of the toddler. “Suddenly, the special forces made us a descent and pulled through the windows.”
Media reports indicate that the girl pregnant mother has also undergone mild injuries. The scene images showed ball holes in the windows of the house.
Funerals took place on Sunday.
Israeli defense forces (IDF) says that troops on an operation to fight terrorism had shot a structure where suspicious activists were barricaded. He declared in a statement that he was examining information that unresolved civilians were injured.
Omar Shakir, director of Israel and Palestine at Human Rights Watch, told CBC News that the group had documented a wide range of illegal murders of children and other civilians in the West Bank.
“In this particular case, this testifies to a scheme of contempt as reckless for Palestinian life as passers-by and others are often regularly taken in killings,” he said.
Israeli forces have killed at least nine Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in a major operation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was intended to “defeat terrorism”. This arouses the fears that the interrupted Gaza War happens there.
Shakir says that the recent escalation of Israeli military violence in the West Bank was “dramatic” and “alarming”.
An Israeli air strike killed two Palestinian activists in the city of Tulkarm on Monday, according to Hamas and Israeli military officials.
In Jenin, further north, a major operation with hundreds of Israeli troops supported by armored vehicles, drones and helicopters, seemed ready to pass in a second week, with smoke exceeding the refugee camp adjacent to the city .
The raid in Jenin, which is considered a hub for Palestinian resistance groups, started the next day after a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
The armored bulldozers and the diggers destroyed the buildings and the roads of the camp – a crowded canton built for the descendants of Palestinians who fled or were forced from their home in the 1948 war in the middle of the creation of Israel. Thousands of people have left their house.
At least 16 Palestinians were killed in Jenin and the surrounding area since the start of the operation a week ago, including four claimed as combatants from Hamas and Islamic jihad supported by Iran.
The International Court of Justice of The Hague said in July that the occupation by Israel of the West Bank violated international law, writing in a notice of not binding council that Israel should end its presence in the most occupied Palestinian territories quickly possible. Israel rejected the results.
