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Name: Khaled Maher Walweel |
| Age:
7 years |
| Date of Death:
Saturday, 27 March 2004 |
| Place of Death:
In his home near a window in Balata Refugee camp, Nablus. |
| Weapon Type: live ammunition |
| Details of the last hours: |
At approximately 10:00 am, two jeeps moved further into the center of the refugee camp, firing live ammunition into the crowded streets and into the air. Three more jeeps soon arrived at the same entrance. A group of Israeli soldiers occupied a home in the center of the camp during the previous night along with two other houses near Jerusalem Street on the camp's western edge. The two jeeps were presumably in the camp to evacuate the central group of soldiers. After several minutes at least four soldiers were seen leaving a house and entering the back of one of the jeeps. Shortly afterwards, the barrage of indiscriminate shooting from the two jeeps into the camp intensified and Khaled was killed. No armed Palestinian fighters were present in the area during the incident.
Saturday morning an Israeli soldier firing from inside a military jeep shot dead seven year old Khaled Maher Walweel. Khaled was in his home near a window, on the 2d floor, when he was shot. The bullet pierced the window and hit the boy in the neck. In the street below, two military jeeps were making their way out of the camp under a barrage of stones. Later, Khaled’s uncle carried the severely bleeding boy into the street. He first held the boy up at the window of an army jeep and then walked towards a waiting ambulance. As he was getting closer to the vehicle, approximately 20 meters away, one of the jeeps attempted to cut him off.
The uncle was pinned momentarily between a shop front and the jeep. When the ambulance approached, the Israeli soldiers blocked it too. One jeep maneuvered behind the ambulance while the first jeep moved to block the ambulance's front. Khaled was able to be slipped inside the ambulance, but the two jeeps in the narrow street prevented the ambulance from leaving the scene. Soldiers were clearly intending to block the movement of the emergency vehicle. As the ambulance driver attempted to move around the jeeps, the jeeps themselves moved so as to continue blocking the ambulance's departure.
Eventually the ambulance, with the assistance of the surrounding crowd, was able to move out from between the jeeps. Paramedical workers with the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees performed CPR during transport to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus but the boy was pronounced dead upon arrival. |
| His Hobbies: |
| Playing with his mates in the refugee camp. |
| His Dreams: |
| Seized when he was shot dead. |
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