Palestinian Red Crescent Society teams revealed on Tuesday that they were heading to Ofer military barrier west of Ramallah in order to receive the body of the female minor Fatmah Hejaiji who was killed by Israeli gunfire last week.

Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) summoned the family of the female martyr on Monday and told them they were going to return the body of their daughter on Monday, but the IOA postponed that to Tuesday.

The 16-year-old Hejaiji, from Qarawa Bani Zeid town northwest of Ramallah, was hit by 20 bullets fired by Israeli policemen at Damascus gate in Occupied Jerusalem last week. The Palestinian girl was shot after an alleged stabbing attempt.

Turkish deputy premier Numan Kurtulmus has condemned the Israeli occupation state for cold-bloodedly killing 16-year-old Fatima Hajiji last Sunday.

In recent Twitter remarks, Kurtulmus reiterated Turkey’s rejection of Israel’s persistent occupation of the Palestinian territories and its unjust practices against the Palestinian people.

He stressed that Turkey would continue to defend the just rights and demands of the Palestinian people despite the international silence on Israel’s violations against them.

The Turkish official said that Israel’s soldiers do not abide by the international law and showed their hatred once again by killing a girl child, affirming such injustice would certainly end one day.

Fatima Hajiji was shot dead in cold-blood by Israeli police soldiers last Sunday in Bab al-Amud area of Jerusalem’s Old City.

The Israeli police justified its soldiers’ crime by claiming the teenager wanted to carry out a stabbing attack against them.

Hajiji was a resident of the Qarawat Bani Zeid village in the Ramallah and Bireh province.

Palestinians who witnessed Israeli border police shooting and killing 16-year-old Fatima Afif Abd al-Rahman Hjeiji in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday evening said the girl was “executed in cold blood” and did not pose a lethal threat when she was hit with some 20 bullets outside of the Old City.

Israeli police claimed Hjeiji “approached Israeli police and border guards stationed at the site, drew a knife, and tried to attack them while calling out 'Allah Akbar' in an attempt to hurt Israeli forces, who determinedly and professionally neutralized her.”

However, shortly after the shooting, an eyewitness told Ma’an that Hjeiji had been standing near Damascus Gate, more than ten meters away from a group of Israeli border guard soldiers, before she was killed.

"One of the soldiers started to shout ‘knife! knife!’ and moments after that, about five soldiers opened fire at her from every direction," he said.

Another witness said the girl was first hit in the chest and fell to the ground, “but Israeli soldiers continued to fire at her back."

Witnesses highlighted that a parked car nearby was riddled with bullets, indicating the extent of indiscriminate force used on the teenage girl, allegedly armed with only a knife.

In the wake off the killing, Israeli forces cordoned off the area as bystanders tried to crowd around Hjeiji’s body. Israeli border guards, intelligence officers, and police on horseback deployed heavily in the area and denied locals access to the Old City.

In the ensuing chaos, Israeli forces “haphazardly used pepper spray on Palestinians to keep them away from from the girl,” a witness told Ma'an.

A young Palestinian man sustained face burns after Israeli forces attacked him with pepper spray near Damascus Gate, and a nine-year-old child, Mahmoud Abu Sbeih, was badly bruised from falling over after he and a group of teenagers were chased by mounted police officers.

An impassioned bystander confronted Israeli police, shouting: “Why do you continue to tell lies? What did that girl do? What did she do? Do you actually want peace?”

Israeli police spokespersons had also published a photo of a knife that allegedly seized at the scene, and said a letter written by Hjeiji, in which she bid farewell to her family, was also found.

According to Israeli police, the note “included verses from the Quran, and was signed ‘martyr,’” the term used by Palestinians to refer to those who are killed by Israeli forces.

Israeli authorities and media outlets have claimed in a number of cases that Palestinians were shot after they intentionally provoked Israeli forces at military checkpoints in order to commit suicide, after a pattern of extrajudicial executions of Palestinians by Israeli forces emerged over a wave of violence that peaked in the fall of 2015.

Eyewitnesses have also said in a number of cases that Israeli security forces planted knives on slain Palestinians to claim that they were acting in self-defense.

An Israeli settler was shot and killed earlier this month at a military checkpoint, representing a rare case of Israeli forces taking lethal action on a Jewish Israeli since Israel became the target of international condemnation for implementing a "shoot-to-kill" policy on Palestinians who allegedly or actually carry out attacks.

Haaretz, considered to be Israel’s most left-leaning news outlet, wrote in the report on the incident that “the concept of ‘suicide by police’ is well known in countries with large Muslim populations, because Islam forbids suicide, but being killed by a policeman or soldier is often considered an honorable death that entitles the dead man to the status of a martyr.”

However, “suicide by cop” is a well-known and researched phenomenon, particularly in the United States where police, like Israeli forces, are routinely denounced for excessive use of lethal force on civilians with impunity.

While Israeli officials have routinely claimed that Palestinian attacks are part of a international rise in Islamist extremism, many Palestinians have instead pointed chiefly to the frustration and despair brought on by Israel's decades-long military occupation of the Palestinian territory and the absence of a political horizon.

According to Ma'an documentation, Hjeiji is the 20th Palestinian to have been killed by Israelis since the beginning of the year, seven of whom were minors. Seven Israelis have been killed by Palestinians during the same time period.

Fatima Hajji 16

A Palestinian young woman was killed on Sunday evening by Israeli policemen near Bab al-Amud in Occupied Jerusalem over an alleged stabbing attempt.

The Israeli police claimed in a statement that the preliminary investigations showed that the policemen at the scene shot the young woman to prevent her from carrying out a stabbing attack against them.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed the martyrdom of the young woman whose identity is still unknown.

Large forces of the Israeli police rushed to the scene and launched search and investigation operations there.

The Hebrew media circulated photos showing the young woman lying on the ground and bleeding to death without being provided any medical assistance.

Since the outbreak of the Jerusalem Intifada in early October in 2015, the Israeli forces have carried out dozens of field executions against Palestinians at the pretext of attempting to carry out anti-occupation attacks.

The number of the Palestinian martyrs since the start of the Jerusalem Intifada increased to 305 including 84 boys under eighteen and 28 females, 11 of whom were minors.

Israeli police kill 16-year old Palestinian girl in Jerusalem

On Sunday afternoon, Israeli police shot and killed a 16-year old Palestinian girl near the Damascus gate in Jerusalem. Although the Israeli police spokesperson claimed that the teen attempted to stab a security officer, that account has been disputed.

The child has been identified as Fatima Afeef Abdul-Rahman Hajiji, 16, from Qarawat Bani Zeid village,  northwest of Ramallah, in the central part of the West Bank.

Eyewitnesses said Fatima was standing near the entrance of Bab al-‘Amoud (Damascus Gate), and was at least ten meters away from the near soldier or officer, and that one of the soldiers started shouting “knife, knife,” before five soldiers fired a barrage of bullets at the child.

They added that the Fatima was first shot with several live rounds in the chest, and the soldiers continue to fire at her after she fell onto the ground. Many live rounds also struck a Palestinian Taxi, parked nearby, causing damage and puncturing one of its tires.

Photos of the deceased show that she was shot and killed at quite a distance from the guard post, so even if she had been holding a knife (which is disputed), no security officers were in danger at the time when she was killed.

Following the fatal shooting of the child, the soldiers used pepper-spray against dozens of Palestinians who gathered in the area, especially close to Fatima.

In addition, the soldiers assaulted many Palestinians, including children, in Sultan Suleiman Street, causing a child, identified as Mahmoud Abu Sbeih, 9, to fall from a high altitude after mounted officer chased him and many other Palestinians.

Hundreds of soldiers and mounted police officers were deployed in the area, closed many roads and alleys, and forced the Palestinians away.

Seven children and 13 adult Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of 2017. Although Israeli officials claim that most of these cases involved Palestinians attempting to attack Israelis, there have been multiple occasions, documented on camera, in which Israeli soldiers planted knives on or near the bodies of Palestinians they had killed.

Since October 2015, Israeli soldiers, settlers and police have killed 262 Palestinian civilians. 41 Israelis have been killed in the same time period.