Israeli police killed a Palestinian child this Sunday. at a military checkpoint in Jerusalemafter officers shot at a vehicle that was allegedly trying to run them over.
The four-year-old girl was not in the car of the alleged perpetrator of a hit-and-run attempt against police, but in “another vehicle” that also passed through that military checkpoint in East Jerusalem, the Israel Border Police said. , in a sentence.
“A vehicle carrying a man and a woman arrived at the Ras Bidu crossing (occupied East Jerusalem) and carried out an attack, running over members of the police”, which, in the answer, They shot “and neutralized the terrorist”said the same source.
According to the Israeli border police, after the shooting at that car, the girl, who was in another vehicle at the checkpoint, “was injured.”
The child was pronounced dead at the scene. after Israeli emergency medical teams attempted to resuscitate him, unsuccessfully.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the alleged perpetrator of the attack, a young Palestinian, was also killed by Israeli forces.
Following the collision, an Israeli police officer suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital.
This death comes at a time of escalating tension and violence in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Tensions increased after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7. That day, Hamas carried out an attack on Israeli soil, resulting in around 1,200 deaths and two hundred hostages, according to authorities.
The Israeli response led to a high level of infrastructure destruction in the Gaza Strip and a humanitarian crisis of unpredictable consequences, with Hamas recording more than 22,800 deaths from Israeli bombings.
Source: TSF
