Palestinian child killed by Israeli Border Police
10 year old Abir Abramin was shot in the back of the head with a rubber coated bullet on Friday, January 19, by Israeli border police. She was outside playing during school recess.
No outrage or talk of savage killing by Charles Gibson, no Breaking News headlines at CNN. Just another Palestinian child killed by an Israeli soldier protecting Israel.
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Her father Bassam Aramin, helped found combatants for peace, an organization of former israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants working together toward peace for all. He issued a statement saying:
We have no choice but to continue to save more children from falling in this dirty conflict.
Unfortunately the New York Times once again provides mouthpiece to another bull shit story from Israeli officials who are claiming that Abir was struck by a stone throwing Palestinian. Evidently an Israeli autopsy could not determine whether Abir was hit by a stone or the rubber coated bullet found at the scene.
In Haaretz, Gideon Levy asks what difference it makes how she was killed. What were the border police doing there?
Twilight Zone / ‘I’ve lost my heart’
By Gideon Levy
Was it the stun grenade that hit her head, the shock caused by its explosion or the rubber bullet fired by the Border Police? Does it make any difference? Did the Border Policeman intend to kill a child of 11 - or not? What difference does it make? The real question is why Border Policemen come almost daily to Anata, doing the devil’s work, as it were, just when children are on their way home from school? What are they looking for, for heaven’s sake, near a school in Anata, a West Bank town located northeast of Jerusalem? The Border Police come, the schoolchildren throw stones, the police fire and kill another innocent little girl - and nobody is called to account. The Shai (Samaria and Judea) police district is investigating, but not the Police Investigation Department.
Two More Palestinian Children were Wounded by Israeli Gunfire in Northern Gaza on Saturday
from IMEMC.org
Dr. Mo’awiya Abu Hasaneen, director of the Emergency Department at the Alshifa Hospital in Gaza, confirmed that Yousef Hajouj,16, and Mohammad Abu Hashish, 16, were shot and wounded.
Since the agreement on a ceasefire on November 26th, the Israeli Army has been frequently opening fire in northern Gaza, wounding at least 23 local Palestinian farmers.
