UNRWA Condemns Killing of Schoolgirl in Rafah

  
GAZA, January 31, 2005 (WAFA)- United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) condemned the Sunday killing by Israeli soldiers of a schoolgirl.
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In a press release, UNRWA said that the 10-year-old Noran Iyad Deeb, a pupil at the Rafah Elementary Co-Ed "B" School run by UNRWA) was shot and killed today while lining up in the school yard for afternoon assembly, adding that a second girl, Aysha Isam El-Khatib was injured in the hand by a second bullet fired at the same time.
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"At the time of the incident, firing had been heard from the direction of the Israeli-controlled border area. The school's teaching staff were attempting to clear the children from the school yard when Noran was hit with a bullet in the face", the press release said.
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UNRWA made it clear that this is the fifth incident in the last two years in which children have been killed or seriously injured inside UNRWA school premises in the Gaza Strip. Two girls were killed in separate incidents in Rafah and Khan Younis last year and a little girl was permanently blinded in Khan Younis in March 2003.