Five Palestinians were killed Wedneday in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israeli occupation soldiers on Wednesday shot and killed a three-year-old girl inside her home in central Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses and medical sources said. Rahma Ibrahim Abu Shamas reportedly was inside her home in Deir al Balah in central Gaza Strip when a bullet struck her in the head, killing her instantly.
Palestinian sources said Israeli soldiers manning an army watchtower at the nearby settlement of Kfar Dorom opened machinegun fire randomly on Palestinian homes around sunrise Wednesday.
PA security officials in the Gaza Strip condemned the killing, calling it "another hideous crime." "Imagine that a Jewish child was killed…and how Israel would react…they are killing our children in cold blood as they are vociferously reminding the world of the so-called holocaust," said Abu Muammar, a Palestinian security official in Deir al Balah.
On Tuesday, three Palestinians were wounded in Israeli shooting at civilian cars in Khan Younis to the south of the Gaza Strip. According to PIC, the three Palestinians included a mother and her child who were injured the Abu Hawli crossing north of Khan Younis city.
In the West Bank town of Qalqilia, three Palestinian activists were shot dead by Israeli troops. In the village of Atuf near Tubas in the West Bank, a Palestinian civilian, identified as Mustafa Khudar Basharat, killed by a blast caused by an Israeli bomb left earlier in the day in his farm land.
