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Executed: Dania Ersheid, 17, from Hebron

Israeli forces executed another teenage girl at a checkpoint in Hebron on Sunday. Her name was Dania Ersheid, she was 17 and a student at Al-Rayyan Girls’ High School. A witness at the scene, standing in back of Ersheid in line at the checkpoint adjacent the Ibrahimi Mosque, said the teen raised her arms and stated “I don’t have a knife” before she was shot with “eight to 10 bullets” before she fell to the ground.

Police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld tweeted Ersheid was a “Female Arab terrorist” who attempted to stab a police officer with knife. The police responded, “and neutralized her“.

Youth Against Settlements requested the military release video of the killing because the entire area is under surveillance by CCTV cameras.

CNN reports: Palestinian woman shot dead; Israelis say she was armed, witness disputes it.

‘I don’t have a knife’

A Hebron resident, who asked not to be identified, told CNN he was next in line at the checkpoint — some 4 meters away — when the incident occurred.

“There were seven or eight soldiers around her. The soldiers checked her belongings in a school bag. She looked like she was around 14 years old,” he said.

“She went through a metal detector. In the school bag they found nothing and asked her, ‘Where’s the knife?’ She said, ‘I don’t have a knife.’ Then they fired between her legs. She was terrified and moved back half a meter or a meter.

“She raised her arms in the air saying ‘I don’t have a knife.’ Then they shot eight to 10 bullets, but I don’t know exactly who was shooting. Then she fell on the ground.”

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA also described the woman as a schoolgirl, quoting witnesses as saying Israeli soldiers had prevented medics from reaching her.

Issa Amer, director of Youth Against Settlements, a Palestinian nonprofit that monitors and documents settler violence and military activity in Hebron, said the group had no information on this specific incident, but “the woman had to go through two metal detectors and revolving doors. This means that her belongings were checked. Also, we call on the military to release video of the incident because there are several CCTV surveillance cameras that record everything in that area.”

The International Solidarity Movement reports:

While she [Ersheid] lay on the ground bleeding from her neck, no first aid was given, not even the Israeli ambulance that arrived after about twenty minutes gave any medical help. A Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance was denied entry to the scene and ordered by soldiers to leave.

…..Dania is already the third girl killed by Israeli soldiers in al-Khalil within a month.

The circumstances sound eerily similar to the “extrajudicial execution” of Hadil al-Hashlamoun in Hebron on September 22. Hashlamoun was left on the ground for 45 minutes, she bled to death.

 

 

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Jeez… I’m gonna puke. I am filled with rage my tax dollars enable this. I go out & about, seething inside, not a word about it do I ever hear. I turn on TV news: same thing. I watch congress via C-SPAN. Nothing there either. The View, The Five, Hagee, all on mainline TV every day. Maury, Springer, etc. On Cspan WJ, the host mostly cuts off anybody critical of Israel, doesn’t field caller’s issues to the guest; when he/she (rarely) does so, guest glibly responds with boilerplate hasbara–host never follows up on that. That’s the best we got, we nation of 320 million souls holding sole superpower status (& just look at that motley crew running for primetime POTUS)?

Correction : murdered

An execution by definition is after a trial. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=execution

the carrying out of a sentence of death on a condemned person.
“the execution of juveniles is prohibited by international law”

By Law the age of majority in Israel is eighteen. http://www.loc.gov/law/help/child-rights/israel.php

If Israel was a dog they’d put it down https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Rabies

Every day – as they have been doing for decades – Zio-supremacists work hard to degenerate from hateful and immoral to evil.

Every day, they get that much closer to realizing their goal.

Does anyone else notice that the violence against Palestinian women has increased of late? I know it’s always there but I don’t believe there was this much killing during the first intifada.

It’s just getting darker and darker. My condolences to another Palestinian family mourning their loved one.