The Times of Israel reports: Security guards at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank shot a 13-year-old Palestinian girl who did not heed their calls to halt on Wednesday morning, in what appears to have been a suicide attempt, the Defense Ministry said.
The incident was initially misreported as an attempted stabbing attack. However, upon searching her possessions, a sapper “did not find anything,” the ministry said in a statement.
“The girl approached the vehicle crossing by foot, holding a bag,” arousing the suspicion of the security guards, the statement said.
They “ordered her to stop and even fired warning shots into the air,” the ministry said, but when the teenager continued approaching despite the calls to halt, the guards “shot her in the legs in order to stop her.”
During an initial investigation of the incident, the teenager said, “I came to die,” according to the ministry.
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