Israel jails wounded Palestinian girl

An Israeli military court sentenced a wounded 16-year-old Palestinian to three years and two months in jail yesterday.

According to sources, Lama Al-Bakri was also fined 6,000 shekel ($1,715).

Al-Bakri was initially detained in December 2015 after allegedly attempting a stabbing attack near the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba in Hebron in southern occupied West Bank.

Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured her at the time.

October 2015 witnessed the eruption of what has become known as the Jerusalem Intifada. It has seen a number of Palestinians killed or severely wounded by Israeli occupation forces who allege that they were planning to carry out attacks against them.

According to Ma’an documentation, 55 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis since the beginning of the year during actual or alleged attacks, while at least 18 of these Palestinians were killed during clashes with Israeli forces or during violent Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank.

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Since the beginning of 2017, 13 Israelis have been killed by Palestinians, almost all of whom were uniformed Israeli officers or Israeli settlers residing in occupied Palestinian territory in violation of international law.

Palestinians have often cited the daily frustrations and routine Israeli military violence imposed by Israel’s half century occupation of the Palestinian territory as main drivers for political attacks on Israelis.

According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, 300 Palestinian minors were being held in Israeli prisons as of August.