A girl Palestine He died this Sunday from shots fired by the Israeli Border Police at a military crossing in the area of Jerusalemafter the agents shot at a vehicle belonging to a Palestinian driver who tried to carry out an alleged intentional hit, police and local media reported.
The girl, four years old and declared dead after Israeli emergency crews tried to revive her, was not in the car of the alleged perpetrator of the attack, “but in another vehicle that was at the intersection“said the Border Police Israeli in a statement.
“Recently, a vehicle containing a man and a woman arrived at the intersection of Ras Bidu (in the area of East Jerusalem occupied) and carried out an attack by running over members of the Police“, after which they shot”and they neutralized the terrorist“added the same source.
“In the context of the shooting against the terrorists, a girl who was in another car that was at the intersection was injured.”, but that he had no involvement in the accident, the Police added.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa identified the dead girl as Ruqaya Jahalin.
On the other hand, he specified that the alleged perpetrator of the attack, a young Palestinian, was also killed by Israeli forces.
In turn, an Israeli Police officer in her twenties suffered minor injuries to her extremities and was evacuated to the hospital.
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All this occurs at a time of great escalation of violence in East Jerusalem and West Bank occupied, where incidents occur daily, a tension that has increased since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in Loop last October 7.
This morning, Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians in military raids in the occupied West Bank, seven of them in an airstrike in the city of Jenin, in the north. In this city, a Border Police agent also died today due to the detonation of an explosive.
Israel took control of East Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1967 and, since then, has maintained an occupation and colonization regime that is considered the longest in recent history.
