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by IMEMC News
Jan 8, 2024

On Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian child in one car, a husband and his wife in another, at the Beit Iksa military roadblock, northwest of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank.

Media sources said the slain child was identified as Roqayya Ahmad Jahalin, 4, from Beit Iksa town northwest of Jerusalem, was killed in the back seat of her parents’ car.

They added that the soldiers also fired many live rounds at another Palestinian car, killing a young man, Mohammad Mizyed Abu Eid, and his wife, Doha Nabeeh Abu Eid, from Biddu town, northwest of Jerusalem.

In addition, a child in a third car was also injured by the random and indiscriminate Israeli army fire.

The Israeli army claimed that the soldiers opened fire and injured a Palestinian man, who reportedly attempted to ram them with his car, mildly wounding two.

The death of the child, the young man, and his wife brought the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank Sunday to eleven.

The Israeli army and the police alleged a car-ramming attack at the Ras Biddu military roadblock, injured two Border Police officers, adding that the police “neutralized the attacker.”

The police added that the soldiers accidentally shot the Palestinians in the midst of the alleged ramming incident; however, these sorts of statements and “justifications” have been frequently used by the army and fail to mention the indiscriminate firing on Palestinian cars in complete disregard of Palestinian lives.

Also Sunday, a young man, Wadea’ Yasser Asous, 18, succumbed to serious wounds he suffered in the morning after an Israeli drone strike killed six Palestinian young men in the village of Ash-Shuhada, southwest of Jenin.

The identities of the executed young men are;

Nabil Suleiman Asous, 18.
Hazza Najeh Asous, 26.
Alaa Najeh Asous, 29.
Ahmed Najeh Asous, 24.
Rami Najeh Asous, 22.
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Palestinian Toddler Killed by Stray Fire When Israeli Border Police Shoot at Another Vehicle That Rammed Policewoman in W. Bank

The driver of the car that ran over the policewoman and a woman passenger in that car were also killed in the incident north of Jerusalem, police say

by Aaron Rabinowitz and Ido Efrati for Haaretz
Jan 7, 2024

A 3-year-old Palestinian girl was killed by stray gunfire on Sunday evening at a West Bank checkpoint near Jerusalem when Israeli Border Police fired at another car that had deliberately run over an Israeli policewoman at the checkpoint, the police said.

The 20-year-old policewoman was lightly injured and was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

The toddler, Rukiay Abo Dhome, is from a Bedouin family in the Palestinian village of Biddu. According to the authorities, she was not in the assailant's vehicle.

While emergency medical personnel were treating the policewoman, the Palestinian toddler was brought over to them. She was unconscious at the time, Magen David Adom said, and was pronounced dead a short time later.

The driver of the car that rammed the policewoman and a passenger in that car were critically wounded by the Border Police gunfire and were later pronounced dead, the Magen David Adom emergency medical service reported.

The incident, which is being investigated by the Justice Ministry's police misconduct unit, occurred at the Ras-Bidu checkpoint near the settlement of Givat Ze'ev north of Jerusalem.

The toddler's uncle told Haaretz that she was in a car with her mother, brother, and sisters, and that they were returning to their house in the Palestinian village of Beit Iksa, on the outskirts of Jerusalem. He stated that they were in a commercial vehicle and passed through the checkpoint without issue, but after a short time, gunshots were heard - and bullets struck the vehicle.

According to him, the toddler was hit in the upper body by a bullet, was critically wounded, and died a short time later. The family protested the shooting, claiming that the girl had died for no reason. "The question is to what extent the police and whoever will be in charge of the investigation will conduct a real investigation and bring those responsible to justice," a family member said.

The couple who were in the ramming vehicle and were killed by the security forces' shots are Mohammed Mzayyid Abu Eid and his wife Dukhaba, residents of the nearby village of Biddu.

Their families denied the notion that it was an intentional ramming attack. According to one of them, "all the signs indicate that it was an accident or a loss of control of the vehicle, and the fact that it was a couple who were in the car together only strengthens the argument that it was an accident." The family also stated that three of Abu Eid's brothers were summoned for questioning following the incident.

Two weeks ago, four young people ranging in age from about 20 and 25 were injured in a car-ramming incident near the West Bank Palestinian village of Al-Fawar in the South Hebron Hills. One of the four was injured moderately to seriously while the other three suffered light injuries. The four were given medical treatment at the scene and then taken to Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva, Magen David Adom said.

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