Saturday January 20, 12:35 AM
A 10-year-old Palestinian girl has died of wounds suffered after Israeli border police fired on demonstrators in a village outside Jerusalem this week.
Abir Aramin was seriously wounded in her head by shrapnel from a stun grenade fired by the Israeli force during clashes with Palestinians in the village of Ananta on Tuesday.
Aramin, who was standing outside her school together with her sister when she was hit, died on Thursday, her family said.
A spokeswoman for the border police confirmed that they had used "crowd control means against stone throwers" protesting the construction of Israel's controversial West Bank separation barrier.
"No injuries were reported at the time. Only three days later was a complaint lodged," she said Friday.
"The border police expresses its regret over the death of the girl and hopes the circumstances of the incident are quickly revealed."
Her death brings to 5,627 the number of people killed since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000, the vast majority of them Palestinians, according to an AFP count.
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