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Hadeel Hashlamoun 18, sept 22 2015 and her killer |
23 sept 2015
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An 18-year-old Palestinian girl has died from wounds sustained after she was shot by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday morning.
The teenager is the second Palestinian to be killed in 24 hours in the occupied West Bank after 21-year-old Dia al-Talameh was killed in the village of Khursa. An Israeli army spokesperson told Al-Jazeera the 21-year-old intended to throw a molotov cocktail at a military vehicle and it detonated on himself. Palestinian security officials claim he was shot by Israeli troops. Initial Israeli media reports claimed the 18-year-old university student |
Hadeel Hashlamon was shot in her lower body after she attempted to stab a soldier at Hebron’s Shuhada Street checkpoint on Tuesday morning.
It later emerged that the teenager was shot several times, including in the chest. Locals deny she was carrying a knife.
Eye-witness Fawaz abu Aisheh said that teenager — who was carrying a large school satchel — froze because she didn’t understand what the soldiers were screaming at her in Hebrew.
“I tried to talk with her, she was terrified. She knew nothing,” he said. He described begging soldiers to let him to take her away from the checkpoint.
It later emerged that the teenager was shot several times, including in the chest. Locals deny she was carrying a knife.
Eye-witness Fawaz abu Aisheh said that teenager — who was carrying a large school satchel — froze because she didn’t understand what the soldiers were screaming at her in Hebrew.
“I tried to talk with her, she was terrified. She knew nothing,” he said. He described begging soldiers to let him to take her away from the checkpoint.
Slain teen Dia al-Talameh
The impunity that Israel historically enjoys from prosecution for war crimes means we will probably never know what happened. Whether the young soldier was fearful the young student was carrying a bomb or simply panicked because she was fully covered in a niqab, she didn’t follow his orders — so he shot her.
“She was covered completely, there was no knife showing at any time. Even if she did have a knife he could have arrested her so easily. I was there, I could have talked to her, she cooperated with me in that very first moment,” Abu Aisheh told the International Solidarity Movement.
The ugly face of Israel’s dehumanisation of Palestinians was further revealed in a disturbing video by Palmedia that showed the aftermath of the shooting. Not only were paramedics prevented from approaching the teenager, but Israeli settlers laughed and pointed as she bled on the ground. Israeli soldiers are shown casually standing around and chatting before dragging her body out of shot by the feet.
Wattan TV reported that the young Palestinian was left bleeding on the ground for 30 minutes before receiving medical treatment. She later died of her injuries in a Jerusalem hospital.
Even if there was a knife, the answer to why the most moral army in the world didn’t employ an alternative than to use close-range, rapid fire straight into the chest of a Palestinian teenager lies in Israel’s long history of literally getting away with murder.
Young soldiers based throughout occupied Palestine — many of whom are 19-years-old themselves — are fully secure in the knowledge that there will be little to no recourse for their actions. After all, what’s another dead Palestinian? They would have only grown up to be a terrorist.
Amnesty: Killing of Hadeel al-Hashlamoun was ‘extrajudicial execution’
Leading human rights organization Amnesty International says the killing of the 18-year-old Palestinian Hadeel al-Hashlamoun on September 22 by an Israeli soldier was an “extrajudicial execution.”
A video of al-Hashlamoun lying on the ground dying has circulated widely on the internet.
Amnesty, which is headquarted in London, interviewed two eyewitnesses who saw Israeli occupation forces shoot the young student in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. Based on the evidence, Amnesty concluded that al-Hashlamoun “at no time posed a sufficient threat to the soldiers to make their use of deliberate lethal force permissible.”
“This killing is the latest in a long line of unlawful killings carried out by the Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank with near total impunity,” Amnesty said.
Two Israeli soldiers stopped the young woman at a checkpoint in Hebron at around 7:40 AM on September 22. Amnesty’s eyewitnesses did not consult with each other, in order to assure accuracy of their accounts.
The witnesses told Amnesty al-Hashlamoun was asked to open her bag for a search. She showed them the inside of her bag, but the soldiers began to yell at her, and she froze in fear. They were shouting in Hebrew, which the young woman did not understand.
Witness Fawaz Abu Aisheh, who speaks Hebrew, said he tried to help the young woman, who was trying to leave the checkpoint. He offered to translate for her, but four Israeli soldiers arrived and pushed him away. At this point, a soldier shot al-Hashlamoun in the leg.
The young woman fell to the ground. One witness says he saw her drop a knife with a brown handle, but another said he did not see a knife.
The Israeli soldier then walked closer to al-Hashlamoun and shot at her chest four or five more times, while she was lying motionless on the ground. Other soldiers yelled at him to stop, yet he kept on shooting.
The Israeli military claims that al-Hashlamoun walked toward the occupation forces with a knife, but witnesses said the young woman had her hands inside her niqab, her full veil, the entire time, and never tried to move toward any of the soldiers. Israel also released a photo of a knife with a blue and yellow handle on the ground at the scene. The two eyewitnesses interviewed by Amnesty and photographs of the incident contradict these official claims.
As for the allegation that al-Hashlamoun had a knife, Amnesty remarks:
Even if al-Hashlamoun did have a knife, Israeli soldiers, who are protected with body armour and heavily equipped with advanced weapons, could have controlled the situation and arrested her without threatening her life.
Open fire regulations of the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank allow soldiers to open fire only when their lives are in imminent danger, and Amnesty International concludes that this was not the case in the shooting of al-Hashlamoun, as she was standing still and separated from the soldiers by a metal barrier.
There was no attempt to arrest al-Hashlamoun, according to the eyewitnesses, or to use non-lethal alternatives.
To then shoot al-Hashlamoun again multiple times as she lay wounded on the ground indicates that her killing was an extrajudicial execution.
Unlawful and deliberate killings carried out by order of government or military officials, or with their complicity or acquiescence, amount to extrajudicial executions, which are prohibited at all times and constitute crimes under international law.
An extrajudicial execution would also constitute a wilful killing, which is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which applies to Israel’s long-standing military occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and a war crime.
An eyewitness who stayed in the area around al-Hashlamoun for 15-20 minutes after the shooting, before being forced to leave by Israeli soldiers, said no medical help was given to the young woman, who lay bleeding to death.
Local media reported that Israeli forces prevented Palestinian medics from helping al-Hashlamoun, and did not put her into an ambulance for 30-40 minutes after they shot her.
“In order to comply with their obligations under the right to life, Israeli forces had a duty to provide al- Hashlamoun with medical assistance at the earliest possible moment, which they clearly did not meet,” Amnesty said.
Violations of international lawIn Hebron, Israeli settlements are located in the center of the city. The young woman was killed near these settlements, which Amnesty makes clear “are illegal under international law.”
“Palestinian residents of Hebron have had their freedom of movement and their economic rights severely curtailed by” the closures imposed on parts of the city by Israeli occupation forces, Amnesty explains. “In addition, Palestinians are often subject to arbitrary detention and humiliating treatment by Israeli security forces stationed in the city, and are often subject to settler violence, which the Israeli authorities fail to investigate effectively.”
The Israeli military says it is investigation the killing, but Amnesty writes:
such internal investigations have consistently failed to identify those responsible for previous unlawful killings or to hold anyone accountable.
International law requires states to ensure prompt, independent, impartial and effective investigations into suspected extrajudicial executions.
Amnesty International is calling on the Israeli authorities to carry out such an investigation into the incident, promptly disclose the findings and ensure that anyone responsible for a human rights violation is brought to justice and that the victim’s family receives full reparation. Failure to effectively investigate a suspected unlawful killing in itself constitutes a violation of the right to life.
The human rights organization indicates that it has “consistently criticized the Israeli authorities for their failure to bring to justice military or police personnel, who operate with impunity.”
Amnesty drew attention to its 2014 report Trigger Happy: Israel’s use of excessive force in the West Bank.
Amnesty also notes that more than 25 Palestinians, including at least three children, have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in 2015. In 2014, dozens more in the West Bank were killed by Israeli soldiers. “In many cases, it appears that the killings were unlawful, and some may have been either wilful killings or extrajudicial executions,” the human rights organization states.
Israeli Soldiers Watch and Settlers Laugh as Shot Palestinian Girl Bleeds to Death
The impunity that Israel historically enjoys from prosecution for war crimes means we will probably never know what happened. Whether the young soldier was fearful the young student was carrying a bomb or simply panicked because she was fully covered in a niqab, she didn’t follow his orders — so he shot her.
“She was covered completely, there was no knife showing at any time. Even if she did have a knife he could have arrested her so easily. I was there, I could have talked to her, she cooperated with me in that very first moment,” Abu Aisheh told the International Solidarity Movement.
The ugly face of Israel’s dehumanisation of Palestinians was further revealed in a disturbing video by Palmedia that showed the aftermath of the shooting. Not only were paramedics prevented from approaching the teenager, but Israeli settlers laughed and pointed as she bled on the ground. Israeli soldiers are shown casually standing around and chatting before dragging her body out of shot by the feet.
Wattan TV reported that the young Palestinian was left bleeding on the ground for 30 minutes before receiving medical treatment. She later died of her injuries in a Jerusalem hospital.
Even if there was a knife, the answer to why the most moral army in the world didn’t employ an alternative than to use close-range, rapid fire straight into the chest of a Palestinian teenager lies in Israel’s long history of literally getting away with murder.
Young soldiers based throughout occupied Palestine — many of whom are 19-years-old themselves — are fully secure in the knowledge that there will be little to no recourse for their actions. After all, what’s another dead Palestinian? They would have only grown up to be a terrorist.
Amnesty: Killing of Hadeel al-Hashlamoun was ‘extrajudicial execution’
Leading human rights organization Amnesty International says the killing of the 18-year-old Palestinian Hadeel al-Hashlamoun on September 22 by an Israeli soldier was an “extrajudicial execution.”
A video of al-Hashlamoun lying on the ground dying has circulated widely on the internet.
Amnesty, which is headquarted in London, interviewed two eyewitnesses who saw Israeli occupation forces shoot the young student in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. Based on the evidence, Amnesty concluded that al-Hashlamoun “at no time posed a sufficient threat to the soldiers to make their use of deliberate lethal force permissible.”
“This killing is the latest in a long line of unlawful killings carried out by the Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank with near total impunity,” Amnesty said.
Two Israeli soldiers stopped the young woman at a checkpoint in Hebron at around 7:40 AM on September 22. Amnesty’s eyewitnesses did not consult with each other, in order to assure accuracy of their accounts.
The witnesses told Amnesty al-Hashlamoun was asked to open her bag for a search. She showed them the inside of her bag, but the soldiers began to yell at her, and she froze in fear. They were shouting in Hebrew, which the young woman did not understand.
Witness Fawaz Abu Aisheh, who speaks Hebrew, said he tried to help the young woman, who was trying to leave the checkpoint. He offered to translate for her, but four Israeli soldiers arrived and pushed him away. At this point, a soldier shot al-Hashlamoun in the leg.
The young woman fell to the ground. One witness says he saw her drop a knife with a brown handle, but another said he did not see a knife.
The Israeli soldier then walked closer to al-Hashlamoun and shot at her chest four or five more times, while she was lying motionless on the ground. Other soldiers yelled at him to stop, yet he kept on shooting.
The Israeli military claims that al-Hashlamoun walked toward the occupation forces with a knife, but witnesses said the young woman had her hands inside her niqab, her full veil, the entire time, and never tried to move toward any of the soldiers. Israel also released a photo of a knife with a blue and yellow handle on the ground at the scene. The two eyewitnesses interviewed by Amnesty and photographs of the incident contradict these official claims.
As for the allegation that al-Hashlamoun had a knife, Amnesty remarks:
Even if al-Hashlamoun did have a knife, Israeli soldiers, who are protected with body armour and heavily equipped with advanced weapons, could have controlled the situation and arrested her without threatening her life.
Open fire regulations of the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank allow soldiers to open fire only when their lives are in imminent danger, and Amnesty International concludes that this was not the case in the shooting of al-Hashlamoun, as she was standing still and separated from the soldiers by a metal barrier.
There was no attempt to arrest al-Hashlamoun, according to the eyewitnesses, or to use non-lethal alternatives.
To then shoot al-Hashlamoun again multiple times as she lay wounded on the ground indicates that her killing was an extrajudicial execution.
Unlawful and deliberate killings carried out by order of government or military officials, or with their complicity or acquiescence, amount to extrajudicial executions, which are prohibited at all times and constitute crimes under international law.
An extrajudicial execution would also constitute a wilful killing, which is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which applies to Israel’s long-standing military occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and a war crime.
An eyewitness who stayed in the area around al-Hashlamoun for 15-20 minutes after the shooting, before being forced to leave by Israeli soldiers, said no medical help was given to the young woman, who lay bleeding to death.
Local media reported that Israeli forces prevented Palestinian medics from helping al-Hashlamoun, and did not put her into an ambulance for 30-40 minutes after they shot her.
“In order to comply with their obligations under the right to life, Israeli forces had a duty to provide al- Hashlamoun with medical assistance at the earliest possible moment, which they clearly did not meet,” Amnesty said.
Violations of international lawIn Hebron, Israeli settlements are located in the center of the city. The young woman was killed near these settlements, which Amnesty makes clear “are illegal under international law.”
“Palestinian residents of Hebron have had their freedom of movement and their economic rights severely curtailed by” the closures imposed on parts of the city by Israeli occupation forces, Amnesty explains. “In addition, Palestinians are often subject to arbitrary detention and humiliating treatment by Israeli security forces stationed in the city, and are often subject to settler violence, which the Israeli authorities fail to investigate effectively.”
The Israeli military says it is investigation the killing, but Amnesty writes:
such internal investigations have consistently failed to identify those responsible for previous unlawful killings or to hold anyone accountable.
International law requires states to ensure prompt, independent, impartial and effective investigations into suspected extrajudicial executions.
Amnesty International is calling on the Israeli authorities to carry out such an investigation into the incident, promptly disclose the findings and ensure that anyone responsible for a human rights violation is brought to justice and that the victim’s family receives full reparation. Failure to effectively investigate a suspected unlawful killing in itself constitutes a violation of the right to life.
The human rights organization indicates that it has “consistently criticized the Israeli authorities for their failure to bring to justice military or police personnel, who operate with impunity.”
Amnesty drew attention to its 2014 report Trigger Happy: Israel’s use of excessive force in the West Bank.
Amnesty also notes that more than 25 Palestinians, including at least three children, have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in 2015. In 2014, dozens more in the West Bank were killed by Israeli soldiers. “In many cases, it appears that the killings were unlawful, and some may have been either wilful killings or extrajudicial executions,” the human rights organization states.
Israeli Soldiers Watch and Settlers Laugh as Shot Palestinian Girl Bleeds to Death
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Thousands of Palestinians marched Wednesday afternoon in the funeral of the Palestinian female teen who was shot dead on Tuesday by Israeli gunfire at a military checkpoint in al-Khalil.
Hadeel Hashlamoun, 18, died of her wounds sustained after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot her at close range and left her to bleed for more than a half an hour. Hadeel had asked to be searched by a female soldier or be sent back home, but was repeatedly shot by one of the soldiers, according to eyewitnesses. The mourners chanted slogans calling for revenge and for activating armed resistance in the West Bank. |
Hashlamon Laid to Rest, Witness Refutes Israeli Account of Death
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of 18-year-old Hadeel al-Hashlamon, on Wednesday, a day after the teenager was shot dead by Israeli forces at a checkpoint in Hebron, as a key eyewitness refuted claims she had attempted to stab Israeli soldiers.
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of Hadeel al-Hashlamon in Hebron on Wednesday.
Crowds of mourners carried the teenager's body through the city for her burial, condemning her killing and vowing revenge for the shooting.
Participants raised the flags of Palestinian political factions during the funeral, calling for unity in the face of Israel's military occupation.
She was then laid to rest in the martyrs cemetery in the city. Israeli forces had transferred al-Hashlamon's body to her family late Tuesday.
The 18-year-old was shot at a checkpoint at the entrance of Hebron's central al-Shuhada street, after allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli soldier, according to the Israeli army's official account. No Israeli soldiers were injured during the incident, and Israeli authorities presented no evidence of the alleged stabbing attempt.
'Shot seven times'
Another soldier is seen here joining the strand-off as a man in civilian attire seems to try to intervene. Shortly after this picture was taken, al-Hashlamon was shot dead
A key eyewitness to the incident, Fawaz Abu Aisha, who can be seen in pictures published by Youth Against Settlements, told Ma'an that he was on his way to work at 7:40 a.m. when he heard Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint in Shuhada Street shouting loudly in Hebrew.
At first he thought they were shouting at three Palestinian children he had seen in the area, but after approaching the checkpoint he saw they were talking to Hadeel, telling her to get away from the area.
Fawaz began to explain to the teenager, who did not understand Hebrew, what the Israeli soldiers were saying, and she attempted to leave the main checkpoint area via a movable barrier at the side. Israeli soldiers fired a warning shot at the ground and asked her to stop, before firing another warning shot. Abu Aisha asked the soldiers to let him explain to her what they were saying but they refused and told him to leave the area.
An Israeli soldier then fired a third warning shot at the teenager before aiming his weapon at her and shooting her in the left leg. One more shot was fired at her right leg and then four more into her chest and abdomen as she lay on the ground, Abu Aisha said.
Another shot was then fired at her body as she lay on the ground, he said. The eyewitness said the entire incident lasted around six minutes and Hadeel did not speak to the Israeli soldiers or resist in any way during that time.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said that an attack on soldiers at the checkpoint had been "thwarted." A local activist group, Youth Against Settlements, later released photos of the incident appearing to also contradict the army's account of events.
They appear to show the girl without any knife and at some distance from the soldiers before they opened fire.
Video footage from local new agency PalMedia, meanwhile, showed the teen left bleeding on the pavement, reportedly for up to 30 minutes, before she was roughly dragged away by an Israeli soldier, with soldiers and heavily armed settlers looked on.
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of 18-year-old Hadeel al-Hashlamon, on Wednesday, a day after the teenager was shot dead by Israeli forces at a checkpoint in Hebron, as a key eyewitness refuted claims she had attempted to stab Israeli soldiers.
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of Hadeel al-Hashlamon in Hebron on Wednesday.
Crowds of mourners carried the teenager's body through the city for her burial, condemning her killing and vowing revenge for the shooting.
Participants raised the flags of Palestinian political factions during the funeral, calling for unity in the face of Israel's military occupation.
She was then laid to rest in the martyrs cemetery in the city. Israeli forces had transferred al-Hashlamon's body to her family late Tuesday.
The 18-year-old was shot at a checkpoint at the entrance of Hebron's central al-Shuhada street, after allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli soldier, according to the Israeli army's official account. No Israeli soldiers were injured during the incident, and Israeli authorities presented no evidence of the alleged stabbing attempt.
'Shot seven times'
Another soldier is seen here joining the strand-off as a man in civilian attire seems to try to intervene. Shortly after this picture was taken, al-Hashlamon was shot dead
A key eyewitness to the incident, Fawaz Abu Aisha, who can be seen in pictures published by Youth Against Settlements, told Ma'an that he was on his way to work at 7:40 a.m. when he heard Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint in Shuhada Street shouting loudly in Hebrew.
At first he thought they were shouting at three Palestinian children he had seen in the area, but after approaching the checkpoint he saw they were talking to Hadeel, telling her to get away from the area.
Fawaz began to explain to the teenager, who did not understand Hebrew, what the Israeli soldiers were saying, and she attempted to leave the main checkpoint area via a movable barrier at the side. Israeli soldiers fired a warning shot at the ground and asked her to stop, before firing another warning shot. Abu Aisha asked the soldiers to let him explain to her what they were saying but they refused and told him to leave the area.
An Israeli soldier then fired a third warning shot at the teenager before aiming his weapon at her and shooting her in the left leg. One more shot was fired at her right leg and then four more into her chest and abdomen as she lay on the ground, Abu Aisha said.
Another shot was then fired at her body as she lay on the ground, he said. The eyewitness said the entire incident lasted around six minutes and Hadeel did not speak to the Israeli soldiers or resist in any way during that time.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said that an attack on soldiers at the checkpoint had been "thwarted." A local activist group, Youth Against Settlements, later released photos of the incident appearing to also contradict the army's account of events.
They appear to show the girl without any knife and at some distance from the soldiers before they opened fire.
Video footage from local new agency PalMedia, meanwhile, showed the teen left bleeding on the pavement, reportedly for up to 30 minutes, before she was roughly dragged away by an Israeli soldier, with soldiers and heavily armed settlers looked on.
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The Palestinian national unity government has asked the United Nations to form an investigative committee to look into the circumstances that led to the murder of Hadeel Hashlamoun, who was shot dead by the Israeli occupation soldiers in al-Khalil City.
The government said images captured and published by the Youth against Settlements Coalition, revealed that Hashlamoun posed no threat to the soldiers, and that the shooting, unlike military claims, was not justified. The occupation army claimed the young woman “attempted to stab a soldier," but the photos revealed she was not even close to any of the soldiers manning the Iron Gate of the Container Roadblock, in al-Khalil. The Palestinian government added that eyewitness reports revealed |
that after the teenage girl was shot with several live rounds, the occupation soldiers left her to bleed for over half an hour.
Medics of the Palestinian Red Crescent tried to reach the wounded young woman, but the soldiers prevented them from approaching her.
A video captured after the shooting, shows armed Israeli settlers gathering at the scene, smiling and chatting, before a soldier dragged the body of the woman to pull her from the sidewalk.
The Hamas resistance group mourned the death of 18-year-old Hadeel, vowing that no single drop of her blood shall go for free.
The group called on the national and international human rights organizations to document such Israeli crimes against the innocent Palestinians.
“Hadeel’s murder, among many other crimes committed by the Israeli occupation on a daily basis, leave no doubt that armed resistance is the only key to oust the Israeli occupation and prevent it from committing more crimes against the Palestinian people,” Hamas added.
Settlers gawk as Palestinian woman lies dying at checkpoint (Update)
On Yom Kippur, there is one story from Israel and Palestine: the killing of 18-year-old Hadeel Hashlamoun at a Hebron checkpoint after she was confronted by soldiers pointing guns.
Below is the shocking video of Hashlamoun’s form being roughly dragged on the ground after her shooting. News accounts state that she was then still alive; she did not die for several hours, at a hospital. Israeli settlers observe her with detachment and even smiles. One of these settlers wears a blue t-shirt with the words in Hebrew on it (visible at 1:41): MEDICINE Rescue/Medical Aid (the Hebrew word is Hatzala) Judea and Samaria
If he is a medical professional, he takes no interest in the Palestinian woman’s situation except to gawk. That organization provides emergency medical services to the settlers. Presumably only to Jews. Another settler grins at the scene at 1:38.
Toward the end of the video you can see the Palestinian community of Hebron, caged inside the checkpoint.Electronic Intifada states:
Wattan TV reported that the young woman was left to bleed for more than 30 minutes.
The Israeli government claims that the soldiers believed Hashlamoun was going to pull a knife. But the Hebron activist group Youth Against Settlements says, “She tried to leave” before she was shot. A researcher for Amnesty, Jacob Burns, has posted this photograph of a knife he says the Israelis claim Hashlamoun was carrying when she was killed. He notes that even if she were trying to attack soldiers, they would not be justified in firing. The New York Times report is that the soldiers were not at risk.
The Times headline deceives readers about the Palestinian victims of this and another incident in the occupied West Bank– “2 Are Killed in West Bank as Jewish and Muslim Holidays Approach”– but Diaa Hadid’s reporting is precise and vivid.
[A] European activist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because his employers do not permit him to talk to reporters, provided photographs of the episode. One showed a soldier pointing his weapon at Ms. Hashlamoun, and another showed her lying on the ground.
He said a soldier had asked Ms. Hashlamoun to open her bag for inspection. “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.
A shame that the New York Times does not include Hashlamoun’s picture in that article. The Times does include a photo of Palestinian women mourning at the funeral of the other Palestinian killed in the West Bank. At right.
Al Jazeera’s account says that Hashlamoun was left bleeding on the ground and that the killing has fostered clashes across the occupied city.
However, a video posted by the news agency PalMedia shows the woman being left to bleed on the ground after she was shot and then being roughly pulled out of the frame of a camera.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Hebron resident Issa Amro identified the woman as 19-year-old Hadeel Salah al-Hashlamon.
“Now the soldiers have increased their numbers throughout the city,” said Amro, who is the coordinator of the Hebron-based Youth Against Settlements monitoring group.
According to Amro, clashes broke out between Palestinian youth and Israeli soldiers in the area following the shooting and “are still ongoing across the city”.
Thanks to Dena Shunra, Ofer Neiman, and James North.
Medics of the Palestinian Red Crescent tried to reach the wounded young woman, but the soldiers prevented them from approaching her.
A video captured after the shooting, shows armed Israeli settlers gathering at the scene, smiling and chatting, before a soldier dragged the body of the woman to pull her from the sidewalk.
The Hamas resistance group mourned the death of 18-year-old Hadeel, vowing that no single drop of her blood shall go for free.
The group called on the national and international human rights organizations to document such Israeli crimes against the innocent Palestinians.
“Hadeel’s murder, among many other crimes committed by the Israeli occupation on a daily basis, leave no doubt that armed resistance is the only key to oust the Israeli occupation and prevent it from committing more crimes against the Palestinian people,” Hamas added.
Settlers gawk as Palestinian woman lies dying at checkpoint (Update)
On Yom Kippur, there is one story from Israel and Palestine: the killing of 18-year-old Hadeel Hashlamoun at a Hebron checkpoint after she was confronted by soldiers pointing guns.
Below is the shocking video of Hashlamoun’s form being roughly dragged on the ground after her shooting. News accounts state that she was then still alive; she did not die for several hours, at a hospital. Israeli settlers observe her with detachment and even smiles. One of these settlers wears a blue t-shirt with the words in Hebrew on it (visible at 1:41): MEDICINE Rescue/Medical Aid (the Hebrew word is Hatzala) Judea and Samaria
If he is a medical professional, he takes no interest in the Palestinian woman’s situation except to gawk. That organization provides emergency medical services to the settlers. Presumably only to Jews. Another settler grins at the scene at 1:38.
Toward the end of the video you can see the Palestinian community of Hebron, caged inside the checkpoint.Electronic Intifada states:
Wattan TV reported that the young woman was left to bleed for more than 30 minutes.
The Israeli government claims that the soldiers believed Hashlamoun was going to pull a knife. But the Hebron activist group Youth Against Settlements says, “She tried to leave” before she was shot. A researcher for Amnesty, Jacob Burns, has posted this photograph of a knife he says the Israelis claim Hashlamoun was carrying when she was killed. He notes that even if she were trying to attack soldiers, they would not be justified in firing. The New York Times report is that the soldiers were not at risk.
The Times headline deceives readers about the Palestinian victims of this and another incident in the occupied West Bank– “2 Are Killed in West Bank as Jewish and Muslim Holidays Approach”– but Diaa Hadid’s reporting is precise and vivid.
[A] European activist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because his employers do not permit him to talk to reporters, provided photographs of the episode. One showed a soldier pointing his weapon at Ms. Hashlamoun, and another showed her lying on the ground.
He said a soldier had asked Ms. Hashlamoun to open her bag for inspection. “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.
A shame that the New York Times does not include Hashlamoun’s picture in that article. The Times does include a photo of Palestinian women mourning at the funeral of the other Palestinian killed in the West Bank. At right.
Al Jazeera’s account says that Hashlamoun was left bleeding on the ground and that the killing has fostered clashes across the occupied city.
However, a video posted by the news agency PalMedia shows the woman being left to bleed on the ground after she was shot and then being roughly pulled out of the frame of a camera.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Hebron resident Issa Amro identified the woman as 19-year-old Hadeel Salah al-Hashlamon.
“Now the soldiers have increased their numbers throughout the city,” said Amro, who is the coordinator of the Hebron-based Youth Against Settlements monitoring group.
According to Amro, clashes broke out between Palestinian youth and Israeli soldiers in the area following the shooting and “are still ongoing across the city”.
Thanks to Dena Shunra, Ofer Neiman, and James North.
This is the moment an armed Israeli soldier was involved in a stand-off with a veiled Palestinian woman - just seconds before she was killed for trying to stab a serviceman to death.
Hadeel al-Hashlamon, 18, was shot at a West Bank checkpoint yesterday, as tensions continued to simmer ahead of this week's major Jewish and Muslim holidays.
Photographs taken in the moments before she was gunned down reveal how at least two soldiers had their guns trained on the veiled teenager just before she was killed.
Later the military said forces opened fire and 'identified a hit' following the incident in the West Bank city of Hebron.
The university student was taken to an Israeli hospital in a critical condition and her father, Salah al-Hashlamon, said she later died of her injuries. The soldier was not wounded.
Video has since emerged of the teenager lying on the ground at the check point moments after the shooting.
It shows soldiers watching on as her body is pulled out from under a fence while further footage shows medics on the scene and a man arriving with a stretcher.
According to local Palestinian media, she had been shot 10 times after refusing to reveal the contents of her purse or lift her face veil.
However an eyewitness told the New York Times that she was trying to show soldiers what was in her bag when she was shot.
A separate witness, Fawaz Abu Aisheh, 34, told the Times that she appeared to freeze as the drama unfolded - even when a soldier shot at her feet.
He is quoted as saying: 'She was like a nail, like she was in shock. I was shouting, ‘She doesn’t understand Hebrew!'
'Even if she had a knife, she would have to leap over a barrier about a meter high to reach a soldier,' he said, adding that there were up to seven soldiers with 'heavy weapons'.
The Middle East Eye news agency reported how there were claims that she was left lying on the street for half an hour before Israeli soldiers allowed doctors to reach her.
Earlier on Tuesday, the military said a 23-year-old Palestinian was found dead in a village near Hebron - allegedly after an explosive device he was handling went off.
The military said it arrived in the area to respond to rock throwing. The Palestinians said the circumstances behind the man's death were unclear.
The violence comes amid rising tensions surrounding Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. The site, holy to both Jews and Muslims, has been a flashpoint for violence in recent days.
Tensions boiled over last week on the eve of the Jewish new year holiday of Rosh Hashanah when Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque and, in clashes with police that would continue for days, threw rocks and firecrackers at officers. An Israeli man was also killed in Jerusalem when Palestinians pelted his car with rocks.
Several rockets from the Gaza Strip have also been fired recently, and Israel has deployed its Iron Dome rocket defense system in towns near the Palestinian territory.
Speaking in Paris on Tuesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for an end to the violence. 'It's extremely dangerous. We don't want to see this continue,' he told the media after a meeting with French President Francois Hollande.
Ahead of the Yom Kippur fast, which began Tuesday evening, Israel reinstated a rule banning Muslim men under age 40 from the Al-Aqsa Mosque as a measure to ensure calm during the holiday. It also said West Bank and Gaza crossings would be closed during the holiday, and would reopen Wednesday.
Police said security will be beefed up during the 25-hour fast, which comes two days ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice.
Eid al-Adha commemorates the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim - or Abraham as he is known in the Bible - to sacrifice his son in accordance with God's will, though in the end God provides him a sheep to sacrifice instead.
Near the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, police were seen preventing men and women from entering the mosque Tuesday.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said some women were being barred from entering because they were part of an outlawed group that sees itself as defenders of the Muslim holy site and tries to disrupt Jewish visits to the site.
The age limit for men at Al-Aqsa has been put in place intermittently after protests erupted at the site, with mostly younger Palestinians throwing rocks clashing with police at the compound and elsewhere.
Photos show soldier, Palestinian moments before shooting (killers version)
Images capture Hadeel al-Shalom and a soldier after she reportedly pulled a knife and before she was fatally wounded.
A video showing young Palestinian woman moments before being shot by an Israeli soldier was circulated on social networks on Tuesday.
Hadeel al-Hashlamon was critically wounded after reportedly attempting to stab a soldier with a knife in Hebron – which a Palestinian witness denied on Wednesday.
She later died at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
Following the incident, the IDF said it had been handled according to protocol.
"The woman arrived at a police checkpoint and triggered the metal detector when she went through," said the army. "She was told to stop and didn't, she kept walking towards the soldiers and was told to stop again. Then gunfire was aimed at the floor, at which point she pulled out a knife, so she was shot in the leg. She then continued towards the soldiers and was shot again."
A Palestinian witness disputed the account. Fawaz Abu Eisheh said Wednesday he was at the checkpoint and heard the troops ordering the woman to stop. She didn't and they shot her in the leg.
Abu Eisheh said he thought there might be a language barrier and offered to translate.
But, he said, the woman was shot again and as she lay on the ground, a soldier fired "four, five bullets at her abdomen and chest."
Hours before that incident on Tuesda, an explosion occurred near an IDF patrol following reports of disturbances in the Hebron area. Investigation after the blast, which occurred after IDF soldiers had exited their jeep, uncovered the body of a Palestinian.
The IDF believed the Palestinian, an Islamic Jihad operative, died while trying to throw a grenade at the soldiers.
Hadeel al-Hashlamon, 18, was shot at a West Bank checkpoint yesterday, as tensions continued to simmer ahead of this week's major Jewish and Muslim holidays.
Photographs taken in the moments before she was gunned down reveal how at least two soldiers had their guns trained on the veiled teenager just before she was killed.
Later the military said forces opened fire and 'identified a hit' following the incident in the West Bank city of Hebron.
The university student was taken to an Israeli hospital in a critical condition and her father, Salah al-Hashlamon, said she later died of her injuries. The soldier was not wounded.
Video has since emerged of the teenager lying on the ground at the check point moments after the shooting.
It shows soldiers watching on as her body is pulled out from under a fence while further footage shows medics on the scene and a man arriving with a stretcher.
According to local Palestinian media, she had been shot 10 times after refusing to reveal the contents of her purse or lift her face veil.
However an eyewitness told the New York Times that she was trying to show soldiers what was in her bag when she was shot.
A separate witness, Fawaz Abu Aisheh, 34, told the Times that she appeared to freeze as the drama unfolded - even when a soldier shot at her feet.
He is quoted as saying: 'She was like a nail, like she was in shock. I was shouting, ‘She doesn’t understand Hebrew!'
'Even if she had a knife, she would have to leap over a barrier about a meter high to reach a soldier,' he said, adding that there were up to seven soldiers with 'heavy weapons'.
The Middle East Eye news agency reported how there were claims that she was left lying on the street for half an hour before Israeli soldiers allowed doctors to reach her.
Earlier on Tuesday, the military said a 23-year-old Palestinian was found dead in a village near Hebron - allegedly after an explosive device he was handling went off.
The military said it arrived in the area to respond to rock throwing. The Palestinians said the circumstances behind the man's death were unclear.
The violence comes amid rising tensions surrounding Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. The site, holy to both Jews and Muslims, has been a flashpoint for violence in recent days.
Tensions boiled over last week on the eve of the Jewish new year holiday of Rosh Hashanah when Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque and, in clashes with police that would continue for days, threw rocks and firecrackers at officers. An Israeli man was also killed in Jerusalem when Palestinians pelted his car with rocks.
Several rockets from the Gaza Strip have also been fired recently, and Israel has deployed its Iron Dome rocket defense system in towns near the Palestinian territory.
Speaking in Paris on Tuesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for an end to the violence. 'It's extremely dangerous. We don't want to see this continue,' he told the media after a meeting with French President Francois Hollande.
Ahead of the Yom Kippur fast, which began Tuesday evening, Israel reinstated a rule banning Muslim men under age 40 from the Al-Aqsa Mosque as a measure to ensure calm during the holiday. It also said West Bank and Gaza crossings would be closed during the holiday, and would reopen Wednesday.
Police said security will be beefed up during the 25-hour fast, which comes two days ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice.
Eid al-Adha commemorates the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim - or Abraham as he is known in the Bible - to sacrifice his son in accordance with God's will, though in the end God provides him a sheep to sacrifice instead.
Near the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, police were seen preventing men and women from entering the mosque Tuesday.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said some women were being barred from entering because they were part of an outlawed group that sees itself as defenders of the Muslim holy site and tries to disrupt Jewish visits to the site.
The age limit for men at Al-Aqsa has been put in place intermittently after protests erupted at the site, with mostly younger Palestinians throwing rocks clashing with police at the compound and elsewhere.
Photos show soldier, Palestinian moments before shooting (killers version)
Images capture Hadeel al-Shalom and a soldier after she reportedly pulled a knife and before she was fatally wounded.
A video showing young Palestinian woman moments before being shot by an Israeli soldier was circulated on social networks on Tuesday.
Hadeel al-Hashlamon was critically wounded after reportedly attempting to stab a soldier with a knife in Hebron – which a Palestinian witness denied on Wednesday.
She later died at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
Following the incident, the IDF said it had been handled according to protocol.
"The woman arrived at a police checkpoint and triggered the metal detector when she went through," said the army. "She was told to stop and didn't, she kept walking towards the soldiers and was told to stop again. Then gunfire was aimed at the floor, at which point she pulled out a knife, so she was shot in the leg. She then continued towards the soldiers and was shot again."
A Palestinian witness disputed the account. Fawaz Abu Eisheh said Wednesday he was at the checkpoint and heard the troops ordering the woman to stop. She didn't and they shot her in the leg.
Abu Eisheh said he thought there might be a language barrier and offered to translate.
But, he said, the woman was shot again and as she lay on the ground, a soldier fired "four, five bullets at her abdomen and chest."
Hours before that incident on Tuesda, an explosion occurred near an IDF patrol following reports of disturbances in the Hebron area. Investigation after the blast, which occurred after IDF soldiers had exited their jeep, uncovered the body of a Palestinian.
The IDF believed the Palestinian, an Islamic Jihad operative, died while trying to throw a grenade at the soldiers.
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Hadeel Hashlamoun 18, at the Israeli checkpoint just before being shot
Hadeel Hashlamoun, 18, was critically injured and later died of her wounds on Tuesday afternoon, when soldiers shot her at an Israeli military checkpoint in Al Shohada Street in Hebron old city. Media sources in Hebron said Hadeel was injury in her abdomen, and that the soldiers left her bleeding onto the ground for nearly 30 minutes, and prevented Palestinian medics from approach her. The Israeli army claims the young woman attempted to stab a soldier. A Photo by the Palestine News Agency – WAFA shows Hadeel just before being shoot by the Israeli soldiers with nothing in her hands. The Israeli military initially said the woman was shot in her legs, and later said she is in a critical condition. She was moved to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem where she died of her wounds. According to her family Hadeel was a first-year student at the Hebron University. The Palestinian government issued a statement on Tuesday condemning the killing of Hadeel and demanded and international and independent investigation into the incident. Video Video Police reinforcements flood West Bank, Jerusalem ahead of Yom Kippur Palestinian dies in explosion overnight; soldiers prevent stabbing attack; Temple Mount access limited as authorities prepare for violence on Jewish holy day. Thousands of police forces were deployed to high-tension areas Tuesday morning and troops were placed on high alert in preparation for Yom Kippur as Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon ordered the complete closure of the West Bank and Gaza to begin at noon until midnight Wednesday. Fears of security incidents in the West Bank and East Jerusalem for Yom Kippur already seemed to be legitimate overnight Monday when a Palestinian died just south of Hebron after security forces entered the area in response to reports of a stone barrier that had been erected in the town of Beit Hagai. An explosion was heard and troops found the body of the Palestinian nearby. |
Current assessments suggest that the 23-year-old individual was trying to throw a grenade at the soldiers when it exploded in his hands. Violence continued into Tuesday morning when a woman attempted to stab a IDF soldier at a checkpoint in Hebron. The female was shot in the leg and seriously wounded before being evacuated by the Red Crescent to a nearby medical facility. The soldier was unharmed.
The incidents followed over a week of increased tensions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - a week marred by riots and attacks, mainly by use of stones and firebombs. In response to the deteriorating security situation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was granted legal permission by Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to arm snipers with the Ruger Precision Rifle and to fire at individuals endangering public safety with intention to wound them.
After a situation assessment, police decided to restrict entrance to the Temple Mount on Tuesday to Palestinians over the age of 40 in an effort to decrease the likelihood of violence and protect the thousands of Jews expected to pray at the Western Wall for Yom Kippur.
Meanwhile, volunteers of the Israeli Civil Guard, in coordination with police, will provide armed security at local Synagogues throughout the country. As on every Yom Kippur, roadblocks were erected to prevent vehicular traffic from East Jerusalem into the west, to prevent the likelihood of confrontation.
The Yom Kippur fast will begin in Jerusalem at 6:01pm, in Tel Aviv at 6:16pm, in Haifa at 6:07pm and in Be'er Sheva at 6:18pm. The fast ends on Wednesday in Jerusalem at 7:11pm, in Tel Aviv at 7:13, in Haifa at 7:13 and in Be'er Sheva at 7:13pm.
Public transit throughout the country, including buses and trains, will stop between 1:30pm to 3pm and begin again on Wednesday evening after 8:30pm.
The incidents followed over a week of increased tensions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - a week marred by riots and attacks, mainly by use of stones and firebombs. In response to the deteriorating security situation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was granted legal permission by Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to arm snipers with the Ruger Precision Rifle and to fire at individuals endangering public safety with intention to wound them.
After a situation assessment, police decided to restrict entrance to the Temple Mount on Tuesday to Palestinians over the age of 40 in an effort to decrease the likelihood of violence and protect the thousands of Jews expected to pray at the Western Wall for Yom Kippur.
Meanwhile, volunteers of the Israeli Civil Guard, in coordination with police, will provide armed security at local Synagogues throughout the country. As on every Yom Kippur, roadblocks were erected to prevent vehicular traffic from East Jerusalem into the west, to prevent the likelihood of confrontation.
The Yom Kippur fast will begin in Jerusalem at 6:01pm, in Tel Aviv at 6:16pm, in Haifa at 6:07pm and in Be'er Sheva at 6:18pm. The fast ends on Wednesday in Jerusalem at 7:11pm, in Tel Aviv at 7:13, in Haifa at 7:13 and in Be'er Sheva at 7:13pm.
Public transit throughout the country, including buses and trains, will stop between 1:30pm to 3pm and begin again on Wednesday evening after 8:30pm.
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