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Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Truth: Palestinian kills girl - Palestinian & UN lies: IDF killed

Truth: Palestinian kills girl - Palestinian & UN lies: IDF killed girl

#1 Truth: PA arrests suspect in girl's murder

Margot Dudkevitch, THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 1, 2005
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1107228084937&p=1078027574097

The Palestinians arrested a suspect in Monday's murder of Nuran Dib, on
Tuesday evening.

The man reportedly fired shots into the air; one of those shots hit the
girl.

The suspect is being questioned regarding the shooting.

The IDF said on Monday night that following an initial investigation, it did
not seem that the 10-year-old from Rafah was hit by IDF tank fire.

Palestinians had originally claimed that the girl was killed by shrapnel
fired from an IDF tank shell at an UNWRA schoolyard in Rafah, where Dib was
playing.

The Palestinians used the supposed killing as a pretext to resume firing
mortars at Gaza Strip settlements.

During the day Monday, soldiers positioned in posts located along the
Philadelphi Route fired twice from light weapons into
areas far from where the girl was hit, security officials said.

The officials said that at the time the girl was killed, officials at the
District Coordinating Office received reports that in the same area Muslim
worshippers returning from the Hajj in Mecca fired warning shots in the air
to celebrate their return.

#2 Lies:

IOF Kill 10-Year-Old Palestinian Girl at Refugee School
PM Condemns the 'War Crime,' UN the Israeli Indiscriminate Gunfire
01/02/2005

Palestine Media Center - PMC [Official PA website
www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=788

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei condemned as a "war crime" the
killing of a 10-year-old Palestinian girl by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)
at an UNRWA-run school in the southern Gaza Strip Monday, which provoked a
retaliation that threatened a de facto truce at a time when a former
Palestinian security and Israel's "defense" minister were holding their
second "security" meeting in a week.

Noran Iyad Deeb died instantly after being shot in the head by Isareli
occupation soldiers from an observation post on the border with Egypt,
Palestinian medical sources said.

"She suddenly screamed and fell to the ground, bleeding. The school girls
started to run everywhere," one witness said.

A second girl, aged seven, was also shot in the hand, the sources said.

"Two girls fell to the ground, one was hit in the head and the other in the
hand," teacher Mazen al-Ghandour told Reuters.

The dead girl's mother questioned the official reports on a ceasefire.

"We heard Abu Mazen (President Mahmoud Abbas) talking about redeployment. We
heard talk about a cease-fire. But it seems there is nothing like that on
the ground," she said.

"My daughter was lovely. Today she went to school earlier than usual. She
said she wanted to play with her schoolmates before class."

The UNRWA elementary school in the Brazil neighborhood of the Rafah refugee
camp is located around half a mile (800 meters) from the Israeli-manned
border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

Sources at the school said youngsters had been queuing up in schoolyard when
the shooting occurred.

Palestinian Prime Minister Qurei, who is in Gaza, called the killing of the
schoolgirl a "war crime" committed while Palestinians were making efforts to
maintain calm.

"This is a crime and sends a bad message to the whole world," he told
reporters in Gaza City.

...

#3 More lies - from UNRWA

UNRWA
PRESS RELEASE
Press Release No. HQ/G/01/2005
www.un.org/unrwa/news/releases/pr-2005/hqg01-05.pdf
31 January 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

10-YEAR OLD CHILD KILLED IN UNRWA SCHOOL IN GAZA
Gaza-

Noran Iyad Deeb, a pupil at the Rafah Elementary Co-Ed "B" School run by the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), was
shot and killed today while lining up in the school yard for afternoon
assembly. She was ten years old.

A second girl, Aysha Isam El-Khatib was injured in the hand by a second
bullet fired at the same time.

At the time of the incident, firing had been heard from the direction of the
Israeli-controlled border area. The school's teaching staff were attempting
to clear the children from the school yard when Noran was hit. The bullet
hit her in the face.

This is the fifth incident in the last two years in which children have been
killed or seriously injured inside UNRWA school premises in the Gaza Strip.
Two girls were killed in separate incidents in Rafah and Khan Younis last
year and a little girl was permanently blinded in Khan Younis in March 2003.

UNRWA has repeatedly protested the Israeli military's indiscriminate firing
into civilian areas in the occupied Palestinian territory. Rafah Elementary
Co-Ed "B" School, which is 800 metres from the border, has been hit on
numerous occasions since the start of the conflict. This is the first time
the shots have had tragic consequences.

Peter Hansen, UNRWA's Commissioner-General, said: "Despite the hopeful signs
of improvement in the situation we have again been reminded of the
continuing danger to which innocent children are exposed by the realities of
the occupation and the irresponsible use of arms."

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