The Jerusalem District Prosecutor's Office has decided not to indict border policemen in the death last January of a 10-year-old East Jerusalem girl, citing lack of evidence.

The Israeli human rights group Yesh Din announced yesterday that it would appeal the decision.

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Abir Aramin, from the village of Anata near Jerusalem, sustained a fatal head injury when she and her sister left school for recess while Border Police troops clashed with protesters nearby.

The investigators and pathologists who did an autopsy on the girl's body had trouble determining the cause of death.

The police's Samaria and Judea District, which was in charge of the case because the death had occured in the territories, ruled out a rubber bullet, but the investigators did not discount the possibility that Aramin had been hit by a percussion grenade or a rock.

Border Police troops who had been operating in the village admitted to firing rubber bullets and employing means of crowd dispersal, but denied hitting the girl.

The girl's father, Basam, who is a member of the organization Warriors for Peace, has worked in recent months to reach an arrangement with the police troops in the village to prevent friction.