A 16-year-old Palestinian Girl was Shot Dead in her Head. So What?

Dec 14, 2022 01:58 pm

 

Haaretz-Adapted

Jana Zakarna, 16, was shot dead in her head on the day before yesterday. A simple and almost trivial story. The army's consistent narrative rolled: "In the preliminary investigation, the soldiers said that they did not notice a woman or a girl during the exchange of fire. In the army, they check if the girl was found on a top of a low surface.

Similar to the case of Shireen Abu Aqleh, they cut and pasted the results of the army's investigation into her assassination, except for the possibility that the girl was accidentally shot by the army because of the darkness of the night. She may have stood above a low surface, so they couldn't see her. Eventually, the result is that when they shoot at night, the possibility of killing citizens is good. So, how do they diagnose the gunmen and how do they only accurately know their injury?

Then Defence Minister Beni Gantz responded and said that he is sorry about Zakarneh's death. This is a conditional regret, and a new style of the military public relations theory. They promote that she may have been killed by Palestinians, or what she was doing on the roof while the sound of bullets was in every direction. Then they started claiming that the girl had helped the resistance and was a surveillance for them. She was mistakenly diagnosed as one of the resistances.

In this time, Chief of Staff Gant, Regional Commander and Force Commanders are assured because the child Zakarnah is just a mere Palestinian not an American citizen like the journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh to open an investigation into her murder. They will not allow a 16-year-old girl to undermine the army's clean classification of any defect.

The killing of innocent people in the occupied territories is not an "internal Israeli affair". The United Nations Children's and War Zones Envoy, Virginia Gamba, is in the country and will examine whether there is a place for Israel to be included in the list of States that harm children during the war.

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