3-Year-Old child crushed at Israeli checkpoint

A three-year-old Palestinian girl was killed at an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank city of Ramallah, her mother told WAFA today.

The little child Rafeda Thaer, of Kufr Kanna in Israel, was accompanying, last Sunday, her mother and three brothers to pay a visit to her imprisoned Father in Nafha Israeli jail. The Israeli occupation's Gate of Kharibtha checkpoint, west of Ramallah, shut up at her head and crushed her skull.

Her mother, Jihan Aqeela said: "We stopped at the Kharibtha checkpoint inside a car for more than one hour. Rafeda wanted to go to bathroom. We got off the car and as we were passing the checkpoint, its huge Gate suddenly shut up against Rafeda's head. She was instantly bleeding from her head and eyes and went in a coma. An ambulance rushed to the checkpoint and took Refada to Hospital, but she died two days later."

This comes as Israel said it bombarded today Gaza areas in reaction to Palestinians firing of Qasam rockets, that Israel says has caused no harm to any Israelis.

Also, Medical sources said that two children were wounded Saturday during the Israeli bombardment of the northern parts of the Gaza Strip.

Shifa Hospital sources said that Ahmed Naim was wounded in the head while Abed Abu Oda in the thigh during the Israeli shelling of Beit Hanoun city. The two children were wounded with shrapnel. The sources added that the children were carried to hospital while others suffered shock.