12/10/2004

11-year-old girl injured by Israeli gunfire, UN claims

An 11-year-old Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip has been taken to hospital for emergency surgery after she was struck by gunfire while sitting at her desk in a UN-run school this morning.

Ghadeer Jaber Mokheimer was hit in the stomach during classes at the school in the refugee camp at Khan Younis, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a statement. The hospital described the condition of the grade five student as "stable".

UNRWA said two shots were heard at about 10.45am from the direction of an Israeli army position on the border of the Gush Katif settlement and overlooking Khan Younis.

A 10-year-old schoolchild Raghda Adnan Al-Assar was struck in the head on 7 September while sitting at her desk in a classroom of another UNRWA-run school in Khan Younis. She never regained consciousness and died on 22 September.

(gmcg)

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