Two girls, two shots to the head

[Aidoneus]

Two girls, two shots to the head
Palestinian 15-year-olds among growing number of children hit by Israeli snipers during 'Days of Penitence'
Chris McGreal in Jabaliya refugee camp
Wednesday October 6, 2004
The Guardian

Islam Dwidar's classmates were still taking in her shocking death - the teacher weeping outside before facing the girls, her closest friend recounting how they walked to school together each day - when the news arrived about Tahreer Abu El Jidyan.

The two 15-year-old pupils at Jabaliya's school were both shot in the head by Israeli soldiers inside their homes just a few blocks and several hours apart. Islam died almost immediately after the bullet smashed through her forehead as she baked bread with her mother in their yard on Sunday. Tahreer is still on life support at a Gaza hospital after an operation to remove shards of shattered skull from her brain.

She lies motionless, with little to suggest she is alive other than gentle breathing. Doctors do not expect her to survive.

Tahreer's mother, Intisar, was at her bedside yesterday.

"Oh Tahreer, my heart. I wish I were lying in this bed, not you," she whispered to her child. "She was sweeping the floor in front of the door," said Mrs Abu El Jidyan. "I was standing talking to her. We knew the Israeli soldiers were around, we knew they had snipers in the buildings on our street but we didn't expect what happened. They just shot her in the head. Her brains spilled out. She said: 'Mum, I'm hit'. She praised God and she collapsed."

There were two bullets. The first struck Tahreer in the head. As she fell, the second hit the wall behind her. "I've no doubt a sniper shot her deliberately. There was no fighting in the area. There were no other shots, only the ones that hit Tahreer," said her mother.

With her stood Tahreer's 14-year-old brother, Naser, who was wounded by shrapnel last week. Israeli forces killed their father 11 years ago during the first intifada.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1320735,00.html

[number6]

1. Islam Dwidar's classmates were still taking in her shocking death :(

'Mum, I'm hit'. She praised God and she collapsed.":(

[Djinn]

2. snipers

hit exactly who they intend to the vast majority of the time - that's the whole point of snipers. The IDF is a very well trained outfit they don't hit people this often "accidently" or in "crossfire".

[Zhade]

3. Wow. Silence from the "IDF doesn't target civilians" apologists.

What a surprise, they're too cowardly to admit they could be wrong. Go figure.

[Djinn]

4. too busy wailing

about every Israeli ever to have been wounded in the violence by "the usual mind-numbing,jihadofascist,heinous,crime-against-humanity atrocity." to have any comments on the sniper shootings of children

[Zhade]

5. Nice hypocrisy, huh?

And what's even better, they know that we know they're silent, complicit hypocrites.

Cowardly not to denounce sniping of children, no matter what side they're on.

[venus]

6. True. Thank you Zhade. How eloquent. n/t