Qalandiya
A long queue of pedestrians. The
soldiers were very strict and only blue IDs and special cases were
allowed to pass. We asked about the 14-year-old boy who had been
killed the night before, but the soldiers had nothing to say. A
Palestinian whose wife, he claimed, had seen the incident said that
at about 7pm, soldiers from the northern side of the fence, who
were on the roof of one of the houses, noticed children playing
between the two fences. When they descended, the children ran away
and the soldiers chased after them. One of the boys, Ahmad Naief
Abu Latifa, got caught in the barbed wire and was shot in the back.
He was taken to Ramallah hospital where he died. Another version
says that the children were returning from a demonstration in
Ramallah and that the boy wanted to hang a flag on the fence. It
was then that he was shot. The third version we received was from
the army spokeswoman who politely said: “No one will tell you
what happened.”