The Israeli army yesterday suspended an officer who is accused of firing up to 20 bullets into a 13-year-old Palestinian as she lay on the ground after having been shot from an army outpost.
Another schoolgirl died yesterday after being shot while sitting at her school desk.
The deaths were in the southern Gaza Strip, some miles away from an ongoing army operation which have seen more than 100 Palestinians killed, including many civilians.
The Israeli army suspended the platoon commander when several soldiers threatened to refuse to serve under him if he was not removed. The soldiers told Israeli media that the officer ignored warnings that a person approaching an army outpost last week was a schoolgirl.
After she was shot, he approached Imam al Hamas, 13, as she lay on the ground and fired two bullets at her body before emptying the contents of his rifle magazine into her, the soldiers said.
The second schoolgirl, Ghadeer Mokheimer, 10, died of injuries sustained on Tuesday at her UN-run school in Khan Yunis.
It was the second time in recent weeks that a schoolgirl had been killed at her desk by Israeli gunfire, said Peter Hansen, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA.
“That two young children have been shot and killed, sitting at their desks in UNRWA schools in the last month is horrific … schools should be havens of peace,” he said.
Israeli terrorists kill schoolchildren
Wow brave israeli squatter terrorists use 20 bullets to kill a schoolkid must be so brave of them and also killing 10 year olds sitting at there desks.
Just shows the sickness of the cancer called israel and anyone that supports this terrorist state!