Israeli forces kill Palestinian child

A three-and-a-half-year-old Palestinian girl has been shot dead by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Rawan Abu Zaid was shot twice in the head in her home in Rafah's Brazil neighbourhood on Saturday, according to the head of Rafah's main hospital.

The girl's family said she was hit by Israeli army fire as she walked to a shop near her home in the Brazil neighbourhood of the camp.

A total of 43 Palestinians have been killed in Rafah since the start of Israel's Operation Rainbow, launched to round up wanted Palestinian activists and stamp out weapons smuggling under the border with Egypt.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8147802B-AB86-4407-9A9C-8A4074359563.htm

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RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - A four-year-old Palestinian girl was shot dead on Saturday in a Gaza refugee camp where Israeli troops are mounting raids against militants and a suicide bomber exploded at a West Bank checkpoint.

Palestinian medics and witnesses said Israeli soldiers shot the girl in Rafah refugee camp, but Israeli military sources said they did not know of any shooting in the neighborhood where she was killed.

In the West Bank, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt at an army checkpoint near a Jewish settlement, wounding a soldier and three Palestinians, the army said.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the bombing, and said in a statement it was in retaliation for the Rafah raid, which has left 42 Palestinians dead and hundreds homeless.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5226094&pageNumber=0
.........

So... only two gunshots were heard, the two that killed the girl.

Therefore, this could not have been "collateral damage".

What's the excuse this time?

One may certainly be skeptical that a 3 year old was hit
twice in the head by accident, although it is not impossible.

"The girl's family said she was hit by Israeli army fire as she walked to a shop near her home in the Brazil neighbourhood of the camp."

Can we get a little better documentation on that??

Multiple witnesses including medics.

"Palestinian medics and witnesses said Israeli soldiers shot the girl in Rafah refugee camp".

yeah, thats concrete proof if I've ever heard any.

I guess thats one way to deal with it.

al-reuters picks it up.

ONLY one minor problem......no proof,no named witnesses
no documentation.

No, lets just go with the convenient propaganda that it must
be those heartless murdering IDF and no other explanation is
even considered.

And lord knows al-jazeera would *NEVER* publish anything
but the truth.

And dont even mention that those same old murdering IDF flew
3 innocent palestinian victims of this mornings palestinian terrorist attack to the hospital to get medical care.
(must have been a oversight,huh?)

edit for sp

Have another glass of Kool-Aid & call me in the morning.

or is this wishfull thinking?

:shrug:

than the propaganda bullshit published on al-jazeera.

I have condemned a actions by the IDF in the past but
considering the fight they have against groups of terrorists
like hamas (that still have in their charter the destruction of israel) AND trying to stop the flow of weapons that support the
atrocities committed by the palestinian terrorists, I think they
shown remarkable restraint under these circumstances.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/430378.html

and the New York Times...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/international/middleeast/23gaza.html?hp

Are those news sources Arab propaganda, too?

What does it take?

both articles are reporting "A REPORT".

and the fact that the girl died has been confirmed by an official not related to the family, and that four news sources, at the very least, have reported the event, you STILL don't believe it?

What does it take?

un-named witnesses.

un-named circumstances.

"What does it take?"....something more than al-jazeera
shameless propaganda journalism.

Darranar, just how many tunnels smuggling guns and materials for suicide bombs are acceptable to you before israel should go in
and destroy them?

I'm look foward to your answer.

the Israel/Gaza border is quite secure.

"than the propaganda bullshit published on al-jazeera"
al-jazeera is slanted toward an arab point of view
doesn't make every thing they put out wrong ...


"I have condemned a actions by the IDF in the past"
good

"I think they shown remarkable restraint under these circumstances."
let us agree to disagree

I have condemned a actions by the IDF in the past

I've been here a long time, don, and I've never seen you condemn anything. Unlike one or two others here, I am prepared to admit that I'm mistaken, so if I've missed those rare threads, could you point me to those condemnations of yrs?

Violet...

Confessions of an Actress:

"It is no longer my country"

"For me, this business called the state of Israel is
finished...I can't bear to see it anymore, the
injustice that is done to the Arabs, to the Beduins.
All kinds of scum coming from America and as soon as
they get off the plane taking over lands in the
territories and claiming it for their own...I can't do
anything to change it. I can only go away and let the
whole lot go to hell without me." Israeli actress (and
household name) Rivka Mitchell, quoted in Israeli
peace movement periodical, "The Other Israel", August
1998.

for more documentation. Al Jazeera has been known to dramatize things before the full facts are known. I agree with Dr's statement.

the IDF says that no shots were fired in the area where it was claimed the girl was hit:

The IDF is investigating the death of a three-year-old girl who Palestinians claim was shot twice in the head by soldiers as she walked in the Brazil neighborhood on Saturday.

According to reports, Rawan Abu Zaid was walking to a shop near her home when she was hit.

IDF officials said they had no knowledge of the incident, but IDF forces uncovered an eight meter deep tunnel later in the day and in the area there were heavy exchanges of gunfire between soldiers and Palestinian gunmen.

"The Palestinians lodged a complaint with the district liaison office, but to our knowledge and according to initial findings no soldiers shot in the vicinity where the girl was located," a military official said.

Jpost.com

JPost and the IDF has been known to dramatize things (actually, outright lie about things) before the full facts are known. ;)

Violet...

damn kids these days.