By Tamara Nassar: The Israeli army claimed Atallah Muhammad Harb Rayan was attempting a stabbing attack when he was killed at a junction near the Barkan settlement near the occupied West Bank town of Salfit.
Rayan was 17 years old, Defense for Children International Palestine
confirmed. He is the first Palestinian child Israel has killed this
year.
Local media circulated a picture of a computer science exam the 12th grader had taken earlier in the day.Breaking: @DCIPalestine has confirmed Israeli forces shot dead the first Palestinian child killed in 2021. Israeli forces shot and killed Attallah Mohammad Harb Rayan, 17, near the illegal Burkan settlement in the occupied West Bank around noon today. pic.twitter.com/ScIuCs3Kjj
— Defense for Children (@DCIPalestine) January 26, 2021
One of the Jews involved in the incident is reportedly a British citizen. “L.” – as she was identified by the Jews and their media – said she “knocked him back with my weapon,” and that “he went back and forth between me and my commander, trying to stab us.” The Jerusalem Post identified “L.” as Jew from London in the Jewish Israel death force. The publication appears to name “L.” as Lian Harush in the caption of the main image in the article – the same picture of “L.” posted by the Jewish Israel death force.في الصباح طالبٌ مدرسة وفي الظهيرة شـهـــ، ـــيدٌ مضرج بالدماء..
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) January 26, 2021
ورقة آخر امتحان للشــ ــهيــ ـــد عطالله ريان من بلدة قراوة بني حسان غرب سلفيت. pic.twitter.com/b6Ff8hPjFG
Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper confirmed that 22-year-old Lian Harush came to Israel by herself from Britain to join Israel’s occupation army. Israel systematically recruits Jews from around the world to join its army and participate directly in the occupation of Palestinian land. It even engages in such recruitment in Canada, where it is illegal. Harush’s commander, named “Y.” by The Jerusalem Post, said that as Rayan “began assaulting” the British lone soldier, “she knocked him back with her weapon a few times,” before the commander loaded his gun and shot him once. “After which we kept hitting him with our weapons,” he said. Local news sources published pictures and video of the aftermath of Rayan’s shooting. They show a person lying by a fence with heavily armed soldiers surrounding him. There is no apparent effort to provide first aid."The terrorist charged at me, I pushed him away. My parents stayed calm [when] I told them that there was an attack I was involved in, that they should not be afraid.״
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) January 26, 2021
––Cpl. L., a combat soldier in the Search and Rescue Brigade, who thwarted a stabbing attack today pic.twitter.com/pmYJM1l757
In one video, a man tries to approach the soldiers and Rayan’s body, but soldiers yell at him and he walks away.صور| إصابة شاب برصاص الاحتلال بزعم محاولته تنفيذ عمـ ـلية طـ ـعن قرب سلفيت، قبل قليل. pic.twitter.com/Y11IihT8sw
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) January 26, 2021
من مكان إطلاق النار على فلسطيني من قبل جيش الاحتلال قرب سلفيت قبل قليل بزعم محاولته تنفيذ عملية طعن pic.twitter.com/7I2zNMvVjz
— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) January 26, 2021
“L.” reportedly “called her parents in London from the scene” to tell them that she was fine. As in many previous cases in which an alleged Palestinian attacker was killed, no Israeli soldiers or civilians were injured during the incident. While Israeli forces kill Palestinians with distressing frequency, shootings involving female Israeli soldiers are rare. Rayan’s killing is reminiscent of the 2012 slaying of 17-year-old Palestinian Muhammad al-Salaymeh at a checkpoint near his home in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Nofar Mizrahi, the female soldier who fired the fatal shots, claimed that al-Salaymeh was holding a pistol to the neck of another soldier when she shot him. Video that emerged afterward revealed her account to be a lie. Ali Abunimah contributed reporting.
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