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Prosecutor rejects appeal in case of killing of Palestinian girl

By The Associated Press

Tags: Yesh Din, Abir Aramin

The State Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday rejected an appeal by a human rights group to reopen the case of a Palestinian girl killed during clashes with police last year, the Justice Ministry said.

Ten-year-old Abir Aramin was critically wounded in January 2007 when she was caught between Palestinian students throwing rocks and Border Police
firing rubber bullets in the refugee camp of Anata, on the outskirts of
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erusalem. She died two days later in a Jerusalem hospital.

Her death became a cause for human rights groups and activists, blaming
Israel Police and using the case as an example of the tactics Israeli forces use in Palestinian areas. Israeli officials rejected that version.

The State Prosecutor's Office closed the case last July, citing lack of evidence. On Tuesday, he rejected the appeal on the same grounds, backing the finding that the girl was not killed by police.

The girl's father, Bassam Aramin, said that he will continue fighting to reopen the investigation. "We won't give up," Aramin said. "We will go to the Israeli Supreme Court before we head to the international court."

Aramin is a former Palestinian militant who now works with Combatants for
Peace, a group of ex-militants and IDF soldiers promoting coexistence.

The girl's family and rights groups insist Abir was killed by rubber bullets fired by the police officers, but doctors who treated her at the time said she sustained wounds consistent with a heavy object such as a rock, and saw no evidence of her being hit by a bullet.

Natalie Rosen, an attorney for the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din that appealed the case, said pathologists hired by the appellants did not rule out the possibility the girl was hit by a rubber bullet, but (she) could have also been hit by a rock.

The State Prosecutor's Office said in a statement that there was not enough evidence to reopen the case. "The head wounds sustained by the deceased were not caused by a bullet," the statement read.

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1.	And here I was thinking...	20:00	\|	Colin Wright	12/02/08

2.	I don`t think Colin thinks.He has only Pavlowian	21:28	\|	Absolute Sweden	12/02/08

3.	Rocks kill... it is not harmless "stone-throwing"	23:40	\|	Free Gilad Shalit	12/02/08

4.	Aboslute Sweden let justice prevail	01:50	\|	Truths	13/02/08

5.	caught between Palestinian students throwing rocks and Border	03:44	\|	Fish	13/02/08

6.	TRUTH	04:15	\|	DANNY	13/02/08

7.	So what is different?	05:01	\|	Mark Lincoln	13/02/08

8.	Danny you are welcome to disprove me!	05:26	\|	Truths	13/02/08

9.	Danny there is no city called "Australian".	05:28	\|	Truth	13/02/08

10.	Separation Fence would have saved her	06:03	\|	Rightster	13/02/08

11.	to #`s 2, 4, & 5...what`s really telling here...	07:29	\|	eric	13/02/08

12.	#11, eric...	10:26	\|	Silvienne	13/02/08

13.	#3, How many IDF have been killed by rocks?	10:27	\|	Silvienne	13/02/08

14.	Why does this appear again? Father already agreed it was a rock	15:54	\|	William	13/02/08

15.	Israelis killed by rocks - Silvienne#13	17:11	\|	William	13/02/08

16.	#15, William...	23:29	\|	Silvienne	14/02/08

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