18 y/o Palestinian girl executed at checkpoint (Update)

[lego 44,165]

An 18-year-old Palestinian girl was shot by Israeli troops at a Hebron checkpoint for allegedly refusing to show her purse or face and “trying to attack” a soldier. She died of multiple wounds in a hospital after bleeding in the street for 30 minutes.

 

Hadil Hashlamoun was shot 10 times by Israeli Defense Forces at an Israeli checkpoint in Hebron near the entrance to Shuhada Street on Tuesday.

IDF soldiers did not let paramedics approach the teenager, who the Israelis claimed had tried to stab one of them. Photos posted online, however, appear to contradict the accusation.

 

https://m.facebook.com/media.yas/photos/pcb.10152988177696829/10152988168331829/?type=3&source=48&locale2=en_US

 

 

 

 

 

The 18-year-old died of her wounds in the Shaare Zedek Medical Centre later in the day.

The hospital’s spokesperson said Hadil had been “terribly injured, and underwent surgery upon her arrival,” Maan News Agency reported.

“Three operations were performed on my daughter,” Salah Hashlamoun, Hadil’s father told local reporters. “A part of her intestines had to be removed. But the bullet in her chest was what killed her.”

According to reports in local Palestinian media, the woman was shot after she refused to open her purse or lift her face veil, the niqab, upon request by IDF troops. She was then left out in the street to bleed for 30 minutes before Israeli soldiers allowed doctors to approach her, the Middle East Eye news agency reported.

The Israeli army, in turn, claimed that the teenager was a terrorist who had attempted to stab one of its soldiers. According to the IDF’s story, Hashlamoun was in critical condition after being shot in the legs, and later succumbed to her injuries.

 

However, photos taken by the Youth Against Settlements group shortly before and after the shooting appear to contradict the IDF’s statement.

One of the group’s members claimed that the woman made no attempt to stab a soldier, adding that she most likely was shot after refusing to lift her veil.

 

 

‘Throw a stone? Catch a bullet!’

The incident comes just few days after Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat declared “war” against Palestinian stone-throwing, giving police a green light to use live ammunition to counter rock attacks against officers and Jewish civilians. The measure was approved on Friday. In response, Palestinians staged a ‘Day of Rage’ in protest.

The first weekend after Israel approved the new rules, pro-Israel 0404 news shared a Facebook video of IDF snipers shooting a Palestinian boy, encouraging people to “spread it.”

The footage showed an Israeli soldier aiming a rifle at a Palestinian boy who is seen picking up a stone and throwing it in a direction away from the sniper. It is unclear if the boy intended to hit anyone, as it landed outside the video frame.

 

Seconds after the teenager throws the rock, the sniper pulls the trigger.

A bullet hits the Palestinian boy in the leg, but he still manages to get up and run off, limping.

“The only way this will work. You throw a stone? Catch a bullet. Spread guys!” was the comment added by Israel’s 0404 News to the post.

The post has been welcomed by cheerful comments and “likes” from pro-IDF readers. The incident appears to have taken place in the West Bank, but it is unclear exactly where and when it took place.

http://www.rt.com/news/316252-idf-kills-palestinian-woman-hebron/

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/palestinian-witness-disputes-israel-account-womans-death-33976582

2 Are Killed in West Bank as Jewish and Muslim Holidays Approach

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UPDATE

 

http://www.mintpressnews.com/eyewitness-to-hebron-idf-murder-of-hadil-al-hashlomoun-i-never-saw-any-knife/209988/

 

 

[GloZell Green 11,723]

This is purely disgusting, I just can't understand how people like those assassins could exist in this world.

[LaMaisonGaga 23,884]

the world needs to stop

[Economy 53,090]

if the accusations were indeed false then shame on these soldiers

 

if it was true that she did try and attack them, then their response was still blown out of proportion

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

We need Armageddon ASAP! 

[lego 44,165]

This is purely disgusting, I just can't understand how people like those assassins could exist in this world.

I feel so sorry for her, she didn't understand any Hebrew. They keep changing the story, first it was attack with knife then metal detector went off. She had no weapons. You can see on the photos.

And aftet shooting her to leg, they shot her many times to chest and left her to bleed. What kind of cold blooded murderers?  

[ctherainbow 3,162]

This is horrible, to have an innocent girl shot.  I hope her family is coping with it okay, and that she didn't suffer too much.     Also, you've got to wonder why they don't have translators at the checkpoints to prevent this kind of thing.  

However.

Inb4 people ignore the difficult task the IDF has of securing their borders, and the many atrocities committed on BOTH sides.  If you were a soldier whose country was involved in a 24/7 conflict, in close quarters, you might make horrible decisions, too.  Not saying it's right, just trying to head off the ignorant "Israel sucks, they're all horrible, omigod, remove Israel" comments that seem to be so prevalent on this forum.

[Ronlop 6,882]

It's really difficult to know what really happened in this situation. If she really did try to attack them, then they probably wanted to prevent another case of a soldier getting stabbed yet again but shooting towards her leg one time would've been enough to prevent that from happening. 

If she didn't want to attack them, then they probably didn't understand why she isn't responding at all. Still not justifying the fact that they shot her multiple times. 

There was an act of defense here that went terribly wrong.

Either way, it's horrible that this is the way her life ended. 

[lego 44,165]

if the accusations were indeed false then shame on these soldiers

 

if it was true that she did try and attack them, then their response was still blown out of proportion

》  “When she was opening at her bag, he began shouting: ‘Stop! Stop! Stop! Don’t move! Don’t move!’ ” the activist said. “She was trying to show him what was inside her bag, but the soldier shot her once, and then shot her again.”

 

The activist said three or four other soldiers had raced to the scene and also fired.

 

Another witness, Fawaz Abu Aisheh, 34, who appeared in the photographs taken by the activist, said Ms. Hashlamoun did not respond as soldiers screamed at her in Hebrew to step back. A soldier shot at her feet twice, but she did not move, he said.

 

“She was like a nail, like she was in shock,” he said. “I was shouting, ‘She doesn’t understand Hebrew!’ ”

 

Mr. Abu Aisheh said he had opened a small gate inside the checkpoint so that she could back away from the soldiers. She did so, creating more distance between her and the soldiers.

 

“Even if she had a knife, she would have to leap over a barrier about a meter high to reach a soldier,” he said. “There were six or seven soldiers with heavy weapons. There was no need for that assassination.”

 

The other soldiers who then rushed in fired around her feet and yelled at her to put her hands on the wall, he said. One shot Ms. Hashlamoun in the left leg, then her right, and fired six or seven bullets into her chest and stomach, Mr. Abu Aisheh said. 《

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[Ronlop 6,882]

This is horrible, to have an innocent girl shot.  I hope her family is coping with it okay, and that she didn't suffer too much.     Also, you've got to wonder why they don't have translators at the checkpoints to prevent this kind of thing.  

However.

Inb4 people ignore the difficult task the IDF has of securing their borders, and the many atrocities committed on BOTH sides.  If you were a soldier whose country was involved in a 24/7 conflict, in close quarters, you might make horrible decisions, too.  Not saying it's right, just trying to head off the ignorant "Israel sucks, they're all horrible, omigod, remove Israel" comments that seem to be so prevalent on this forum.

Pretty much this! 

[lego 44,165]

The girl was shot in cold blood and left to bleed with eyewitnesses and photos and people here are worried about no one saying anything bad about idf.  

[FATCAT 60,938]

We need Armageddon ASAP! 

The gods let some girl die a painful, unnecessary death, and you want the world to end. Wtf.

[hmm 979]

Disgusting  Ten shots isn't a deterrent, it's a clear intention to kill, the thirty minute delay in allowing paramedics to get to the victim just reaffirms that. 

[Ronlop 6,882]

The girl was shot in cold blood and left to bleed with eyewitnesses and photos and people here are worried about no one saying anything bad about idf.  

It's the same case as if a police man would shoot a theif or a criminal as an act of defense. That's the way I see it.

Whether she really tried to attack them or not, I don't know. We all don't know that. 

Still think they could have handled this in a better way and not by shooting her multiple times like that. 

As I said, I see it as an act of defense which went terribly wrong. And I'm really sad that this happened to her.

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

The gods let some girl die a painful, unnecessary death, and you want the world to end. Wtf.

Why are humans always blaming God(s) for their own mistakes. Oh wait I forgot this is a site field with atheist. Nvm.