December 16, 2015: Samah Abdul-Mo’men, 20, was shot in the head by Israeli soliders on November 23 and died from her wounds. She was in the car with her father when Israeli soldiers shot her in the head after Alaa’ Khalil al-Hashshash, 16, from the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, allegedly carried out a stabbing attack targeting Israeli soldiers. Alaa’ was also killed. Samah was from ‘Ammouria village, in Salfit. Source: IMEMC
December 1, 2015: Maram Ramez Hassouna, 19, was killed by Israeli soldiers who claimed she carried a knife. No independent confirmation of that claim could be found. Maram was from Rafidia near Nablus. Source: IMEMC
November 23, 2015: Hadeel Wajeeh ‘Awwad, 16, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers after attempting to stab Israelis. Her 14-year-old friend was seriously injured by the soldiers. A surveillance video showed an Israeli guard firing the fatal shot after Hadeel was already shot and wounded. She was from Qalandia, north of Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC
November 22, 2015: Ashraqat Taha Qatanany, 16, was killed when an Israeli settlement leader rammed her with his car, claiming that she had a knife.
When the girl fell to the ground, another Israeli paramilitary settler pulled over and shot her multiple times.
Israeli colonial settlement leader Gershon Mesika rammed a teenage girl with his car, claiming ‘she had a knife’.
When the girl fell to the ground, another Israeli paramilitary settler pulled over and shot her multiple times.
While Israeli authorities claim that Mesika ‘thwarted a terror attack’, the claim of Mesika and the other settler that the girl had a knife contradicts other accounts of the incident.
The child did not harm or attempt to harm anyone, and a knife photographed at the scene appears to have been tossed near her dead body.
Gershon Mesika, from Elon Moreh illegal colony, is the former head of the “Samaria Regional Council”, which is a body organized by Israeli settlers living illegally in the occupied West Bank.
He rammed the child with his car, landing the car in the ditch and leaving the girl lying prone on the ground. A paramilitary settler from the car behind Mesika’s then got out of his car and fired multiple shots at the girl. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the shooting was done by an Israeli driver of a vehicle behind Mesika’s. A later article by the Israeli news agency Arutz Sheva claimed that she was shot ‘by soldiers on the scene’.
A number of recent incidents in which Palestinians were shot and killed have been questioned by Palestinians and their supporters, as the eyewitness reports that unarmed Palestinian civilians were shot by Israeli paramilitary settlers have been reported in the Israeli and international media as ‘thwarted attacks’. In several cases, the Israeli military appears to have taken credit for shootings that were actually carried out by paramilitary settler groups.
Ashraqat was from Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank. Source: IMEMC
November 9, 2015: Rasha Ahmad Hamed ‘Oweissi, 23, was killed by Israeli soldiers at a military roadblock in the West Bank when she approached the checkpoint from afar holding a knife in her hand (and a suicide letter in her bag). She was shot by a soldier while she was still at least 30 feet away from the roadblock. Rasha was from Qalqilia. Source: IMEMC
November 6, 2015: Tharwat Ibrahim Salman Sha’rawi, 73, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers after she allegedly tried to ram them with her car. The military’s claim was strongly denied by eyewitnesses. Tharwat was from Hebron city in the southern part of the West Bank. Source: IMEMC
October 24, 2015: Dania Jihad Ersheid, 17, was shot dead by the Israeli Border Police near Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. The police claimed that police officers saw “a knife in her hand.” No Israelis were injured during the incident. Dania was from Hebron. Source: IMEMC
October 18, 2015: Hoda Mohammad Darwish, 65, died after suffering a respiratory issue due to teargas inhalation. Israeli soldiers at a military road block delayed the car transporting her to the hospital even though her family pleaded with them regarding the grave nature of her condition. She died minutes after finally reaching the hospital. Hoda was from al-‘Eesawiyya town in Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC
October 17, 2015: Bayan Abdul-Wahab al-‘Oseyli, 16, was killed by Israeli soldiers in Wad al-Ghrous, close to the Keryat Arba’ Israeli settlement, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The army claims she stabbed a female soldier. Baya was from Hebron. Source: IMEMC
October 11, 2015: Nour Rasmi Hassan, 30 years old and pregnant, and her 2 year old child Rahaf were killed in their home during an Israeli air strike in Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City. Rescue teams found the child’s body under the rubble. Source: IMEMC