Ten-year-old girl brain dead after border police shooting
Abir Aramin, age 10, was wounded by an Israeli border policeman, and now is brain dead at the Haddasa Ein Karem hospital. A committee is to determine whether or not to unplug her from life support machines.
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Her father, is a member of Combatants for Peace, the Israeli-Palestinian peace organisation. Israeli and international supporters have gathered at the girls school in Anata to express their solidarity and protect the traumatised students from the ongoing threat of the Israeli border police.
A boy who witnessed Abir's injury and carried her back to the girls school stated, "the students of the girls school and the boys school had both just come out of an examination. A border police jeep approached the gathering of girls. The girls were afraid and started running away. The border police jeep followed them in the direction in which they were retreating. Abir was afraid and stood against one of the shops at the side of the road, I was standing near her. The border policeman shot through a special hole in the window of the jeep that was standing very close to us. Abir fell to the ground. I picked her up and took her to the girls school. I saw that she was bleeding from the head."
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