Israeli Forces Kill Nine-Year-Old Girl In Gaza, Shooting Her In The Neck In Front Of Other Children While Attending Class in a Tent – Antiwar.com

 Israeli Forces Kill Nine-Year-Old Girl In Gaza, Shooting Her In The Neck In Front Of Other Children While Attending Class in a Tent

The girl, Ritaj Rihan, was shot in the neck in front of other children while attending a class in a tent in northern Gaza

A nine-year-old girl was shot in the head and killed by the IDF in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, on Thursday while she was attending class in a tent, health and education officials in the Strip told Reuters .

The girl, Ritaj Rihan, a third-grade student, was hit with the bullet in front of her classmates, causing a “strong psychological shock” to the other children, the report said.

“She was sitting at her desk with 44 other students around her when she suddenly collapsed. It was later confirmed that she had been shot in the neck,” Mohamed al-Attar, the principal of the school, told the Quds News Network .

Al-Attar said the shot came from the eastern side of the school near the so-called “yellow line,” which separates the IDF-occupied side of Gaza from the rest of the Strip, less than two kilometers away from where Israeli forces are stationed.

“I dropped her off at the school gate, never imagining it would be the last time I’d see her walking,” Rihan’s father told local media. He said that on the way to school, the girl was speaking “excitedly about her preparations for her uncle’s upcoming wedding, including wearing her best dress and styling her hair.”

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