Last November Israeli soldiers killed 24-year old Rasha Ahmad Hamed ‘Oweissi at a roadblock, as she approached with a knife. Yesterday a soldier shot her 13-year-old niece Baraa Ramadan ‘Oweissi at a nearby checkpoint. She was unarmed.

Ha’aretz reports: “The key to Israeli defense firms not losing business under the new U.S. military aid deal will be to follow Elbit Systems and set up subsidiaries in the United States to bid for defense orders, industry officials said over the weekend. They were speaking days after the United States and Israel signed a 10-year memorandum of understanding that will provide Israel with $3.8 billion in annual grants. In the deal, Israel will no longer be entitled to spend 26.3% of the money – equal to around $815 million annually in recent years – in Israel.”

A video shot by Ma‘an News Agency videographer Mahmoud Abu Yousef shows an Israeli military sniper wounding 22-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Amassi during a raid on al-Fawwar refugee camp in the southern West Bank city of Hebron in mid-August. Amassi was standing on his roof talking on the telephone when the sniper shot him four times.

Israeli occupation forces raided Beit Reema village in northern Ramallah city in the West Bank at dawn Monday the first day of Islamic Eid al-Adha [the most important Islamic holiday]. The soldiers wreaked havoc on a house while searching it and deliberately terrified women and children in the process.

A six-year-old Palestinian girl, Lama Marwan Mousa, was run over and killed by an Israeli settler Saturday evening in the village of al-Khader south of Bethlehem, on the road to the illegal Israeli settlement of Efrat in the southern occupied West Bank.

At least 28 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces since a wave of violence first erupted last October. The majority were shot dead during protests along the security barrier near Israel.

Israeli intelligence on Tuesday informed the family of Mustafa Nimir, who was shot dead by Israeli forces on Monday during a military raid on the Shu‘fat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, that the 27-year-old was “killed by mistake.”

Israeli forces raided Sa’ir village, and the home of Fadi Faroukh, who was shot and killed in November 2015, near a Hebron settlement, and posted threatening leaflets in the village in an apparent first run of Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s new policy of carrot-and-stick toward good and bad Palestinian villages.

There’s an average of 2 incidents of settler violence per week in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to the UN. But Israeli police investigate only one in 50 of Palestinian complaints, says a new study by the Alternative Information Center.

Ma’an reports: “Israeli authorities returned the body of Palestinian Bahaa Elayyan on Thursday at dawn, allowing his family — which has been leading the movement advocating for Israel to release slain Palestinians’ bodies — to bury him 325 days after his death.”