Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he speaks to the media in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 23, 2016.
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According to these people, it is impossible that the girl pulled out the knife and tried to attack the soldiers while she was a few meters away from them.
Police said initial investigations indicated that the teenager “had fought with her family and left her home with a knife and intending to die”. Israeli occupation forces on Saturday gunned down the girl after she allegedly attempted to stab an Israeli security guard outside the entrance of Anatot settlement also known as Almon.
Ruqayya’s father arrived at the scene shortly after she was killed on Saturday and was arrested by Israeli police.
Security camera footage posted online showed the guard running through the settlement gate and a young woman chasing him clutching an object, likely a knife.
U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro on Monday questioned Israel’s policies concerning settlements in the West Bank.
The Ministry of Defense ordered Friday to evict dozens of settlers from the controversial houses, a day after the settlers took over the houses, which are located near a flashpoint site holy to both Muslims and Jews.
His comments on Sunday came at a time of sharp criticism internationally on Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank, including from the United States and European Union. About 150 Palestinians have been killed during the same period. When it does talk of two states, it brings in unreasonable and unacceptable preconditions like retaining large Jewish settlements blocs in areas earmarked for Palestine.
Palestinian leaders have said that with no breakthrough on the horizon, desperate youngsters see no future ahead.
Among those measures are “intentional lethal force” and administrative detention, a practice in which Israel imprisons Palestinians on “secret evidence” without charge or trial.
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“International law requires that intentional lethal force only be used when absolutely unavoidable to protect life, and only when lesser means would be insufficient to apprehend a criminal suspect”, Parker said.
