Israeli Soldiers Kill A Child, Husband And His Wife Near Jerusalem

On Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian child in one car, a husband and his wife in another, at the Beit Iksa military roadblock, northwest of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank.

Media sources said the slain child was identified as Roqayya Ahmad Jahalin, 4, from Beit Iksa town northwest of Jerusalem, was killed in the back seat of her parents’ car.

They added that the soldiers also fired many live rounds at another Palestinian car, killing a young man, Mohammad Mizyed Abu Eid, and his wife, Doha Nabeeh Abu Eid, from Biddu town, northwest of Jerusalem.

In addition, a child in a third car was also injured by the random and indiscriminate Israeli army fire.

The Israeli army claimed that the soldiers opened fire and injured a Palestinian man, who reportedly attempted to ram them with his car, mildly wounding two.

The death of the child, the young man, and his wife brought the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank Sunday to eleven.

The Israeli army and the police alleged a car-ramming attack at the Ras Biddu military roadblock, injured two Border Police officers, adding that the police “neutralized the attacker.”

The police added that the soldiers accidentally shot the Palestinians in the midst of the alleged ramming incident; however, these sorts of statements and “justifications” have been frequently used by the army and fail to mention the indiscriminate firing on Palestinian cars in complete disregard of Palestinian lives.

Also Sunday, a young man, Wadea’ Yasser Asous, 18, succumbed to serious wounds he suffered in the morning after an Israeli drone strike killed six Palestinian young men in the village of Ash-Shuhada, southwest of Jenin.

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