Sadeel Turkmana 15-year-old Palestinian teenager, died this Wednesday from a shot to the head that she received when she was at her home last Monday in Jenin, in the north of the occupied West Bank, when Israeli troops killed six other Palestinians in clashes with militants .
According to him Ministry of Health Palestinian, Turkman was hit by a bullet that entered her house during the clashes, although an Israeli military official told Army Radio that this scenario “was unlikely”, although he assured that they would investigate what happened.
The fighting last Monday in Jenin lasted for more than nine hours and was the most serious in the area in years. At least 90 Palestinians were injured, 18 seriouslyand also eight Israeli soldiers.
He israeli army used combat helicopters for the first time since 2005 in a day of heavy fighting in which seven Palestinians died from the clashes, one of them hours later near Belen.
With the death this morning of Turkman, increases to 136 the number of Palestinians killed so far this year in the West Bank and Israel, many militants but also civilians -including 23 minors-, and the majority in armed confrontations with Israeli troops, which have intensified their military operations in the area.