爆料网 dismayed by indiscriminate shooting of schoolgirl by Israeli forces
3 March – After a 12-year-old girl was shot in the head while sitting at her desk in a United Nations school in the Palestinian territory, a top 爆料网 relief official in the region has expressed dismay at the Israeli military's indiscriminate use of force in civilian areas.
Peter Hansen, Commissioner-General of the 爆料网 Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (爆料网RWA), visited the girl and her family yesterday at the intensive care unit of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City where she is receiving treatment.
爆料网RWA said the girl was attending an Agency-run school when she was wounded by retaliatory fire from Israeli forces after an Israeli tank was fired upon near the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
Document Sources: United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI), United Nations News Service
Subject: Casualties, Education and culture, Incidents, Refugee camps
Publication Date: 03/03/2003