Another Palestinian was shot in the foot with live fire when clashes broke out with Israeli forces near the Nahal Oz checkpoint.
‘Her father works in a farm and Ruqayya used to go to him.
A spokesperson for the UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices said there was also a perception of a “climate of impunity relating to the activities of the settlers”.
Police said that initial investigations into Saturday’s settlement incident showed that the girl left her home in a nearby Palestinian village, feeling suicidal after arguing with her family.
Undercover Israeli security personnel detain a Palestinian protester during clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on January 22.
Israel’s announcement of it’s largest agricultural land seizure since 2014 has drawn harsh criticism from Palestinian and Western authorities.
This is the first time Israel has revoked an attacker’s residency since the start of a four month-long outburst of violence that has killed 25 Israelis in near-daily Palestinian attacks.
Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 war.
The 162-page report, which was published Tuesday and titled “Occupation, Inc.: How Settlement Businesses Contribute to Israel’s Violations of Palestinian Rights“, also concluded that companies who finance, service or trade with Jewish settlements facilitate the growth of the illegal settlements and violate the rights of Palestinians.
Murad Ideis (15) who allegedly stabbed to death a 38-year-old Israeli nurse and mother of six at her house in a West Bank settlement last Sunday, was later arrested in a raid on his family home. A 20-year-old Palestinian man, identified as Tamir Thiyab, lost an eye after being shot with a rubber bullet in the face.
“Israel is stealing land specially in the Jordan Valley under the pretext it wants to annex it“, Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, told Reuters.
The measure, described as rare, was meant to deter others from carrying out attacks, Deri said in a statement.
The latest settlement attacks further boosted tensions after months of unrest, raising fears of an escalation in violence as well as a harsh Israeli crackdown on Palestinians.
A day later, a pregnant Israeli was stabbed and wounded at Tekoa settlement.