Palestinian girl shot by Israel troops dies of wounds

A Palestinian teenage girl succumbs to the injuries she sustained in a shooting assault by Israeli military forces over an alleged stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank.

The shooting took place at the entrance to Mevo Dotan, a settlement southwest of the city of Jenin in the north of Israel-occupied West Bank on Thursday, AFP reported.

The victim has been named by the official Palestinian news agency of Wafa as Nawaf Infiaat from the northern West Bank town of Yaabad.

The 16-year-old died of her injuries at the Hillel Yaffe hospital, where she had been admitted in the city of Hadera in northwestern Israel after the incident

She had been in critical condition upon admission into the facility.

Over the past few years, West Bank and the other Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem al-Quds and Gaza Strip have been witnessing what is widely referred to as the Third Intifada or Palestinian Uprising against Israeli occupation.

The tensions broke out in August 2015 when Tel Aviv introduced restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds.

Israeli forces have been confronting the Palestinian protesters with unremitting aggression, killing more than 300 of them since October that year, when the clashes intensified.

Earlier in the month, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Michael Lynk released a statement, which detailed  Palestinian sufferings in the form of “systemic human rights violations that accompany this occupation -- collective punishment, confiscation of property, excessive use of force and unlawful killings, lack of freedom of movement and steady settlement expansion, among others.”

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