Palestinian say 2-yr-old girl killed by Israeli bullet

JERUSALEM, OCT 2: A two-year-old Palestinian girl has been shot dead in the West Bank and her father said on Monday armed Israelis killed ...

JERUSALEM, OCT 2: A two-year-old Palestinian girl has been shot dead in the West Bank and her father said on Monday armed Israelis killed her. "My daughter, aged two, had a fever, so I took her with my niece to hospital in (the West Bank town) of Nablus on Sunday evening," 34-year-old Abdel-Athim Hassan said.

"The car overheated, so I stopped to see what was wrong and I heard shots fired at my vehicle from an Israeli jeep carrying Jews – settlers wearing skullcaps," he said.

"I immediately got back into the car and drove to Qusra. My daughter was already dead. Her head had exploded and my niece had a bullet in her pelvis."

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A Palestinian doctor told Reuters he had examined two-year-old Sarah and found that a bullet had entered her skull from the back and broken four bones.

"The brain was on her blouse – all of it – nothing of it was left inside the skull. She died immediately," said the doctor, who asked not to be identified, citing a fear of Israeli reprisals. Asked to respond, an Israeli army spokesperson said the military had no knowledge of the incident.

Palestinian health officials have said at least seven children under the age of 17 have been killed by Israeli bullets since violence erupted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday.