Nawf Eqab Enfei’at 16, June 2 2017
11 june 2017
The Israeli occupation army has decided to discharge a soldier from service because he ran afraid from a teen girl carrying a knife in the West Bank.
According to Israel Hayom newspaper, a video recording showed the soldier running away from 16-year-old Nuf Infi’aat as she was trying to stab him at the entrance of an illegal settlement of Mevo
Dotan in the occupied West Bank.
Last week, Infi’aat suffered critical injuries after Israeli soldiers opened fire at her at a military checkpoint near Ya’bad town in Jenin. She died the next day in a hospital.
The video footage also showed Israeli soldiers standing around the young girl and verbally abusing her as she was lying wounded on the ground.
5 june 2017
On the day she received her school certificate, 16-year-old Nouf Infiaat decided to return to her parents with a greater certificate: martyrdom. Her story was written with her blood in the face
of the oppressing occupier, to be registered among the ranks of heroes.
Her mother was waiting for her to return home with her school certificate in a modest house in the town of Yabad to the south of Jenin in the northern West Bank, but she returned with a
certificate of another kind that revived her mother's memory of what her daughter was aiming at, illustrating how many young Palestinians think of their homeland and that they are ready to
sacrifice everything for it.
It was Thursday June 1, 2017, the day in which students were supposed to go to schools to receive their school certificates. Nouf woke up as usual and hugged her mother a last goodbye to return
later with the highest certificate: martyrdom.
Seeking martyrdom
Um Zaid, Nouf’s mother, told the PIC reporter, “She told me she was going to pick up her school certificate and I was waiting for her return. But she was planning to get another type of
certificate: martyrdom.”
What she has done was a very symbolic indication of what young Palestinians are thinking about. The sixteen-year-old and the 8th grader realized what many did not realize about their duty and
their role in confronting the escalating attacks of occupation against the Palestinians.
After leaving the house, Nouf went to the main road and crossed the inter-section where her school is located reaching a place that represents a thorn in the throat of the people of Yabad: the
checkpoint and the settlement of Mevo Dotan, built on the town’s land.
According to a video published by the Israeli occupation, Nouf brandished a knife and stabbed an Israeli soldier as some soldiers got out of their bus at the entrance of the settlement. She then
tried to withdraw from the scene but was shot. She was seriously wounded. She was transferred to a hospital in Jaffa where her death was announced the following day. Her body was handed over to
her family two days later.
Deliberate delay of medical aid
Nouf’s father stressed that he respected the choice of his daughter, considering her a martyr for Palestine, but at the same time, he accuses the Israeli occupation of deliberately delaying
providing medical aid to her after she was injured, which led to her death, in a violation of the standards that should be followed with wounded people.
Dr. Naji Nazzal, who participated in the check up of Nouf’s corpse, said several bullets penetrated the body of the girl and settled in the abdomen, while one bullet ended up in the pelvis, which
led to a severe bleeding that caused her death.
Nazzal pointed out that the wounds in her body indicate that she underwent surgery upon her arrival at the hospital, but the severe bleeding and the loss of a big amount of blood as a result of
the deliberate delay of medical aid, led to the loss of her life.
Nouf is the youngest martyr in the town of Yabad, and the first to venture into the settlement of Mevo Dotan, where no one before dared to do so.
Religious commitment and intelligence
According to Nouf's brothers’ account to the PIC reporter, she insisted the night before her martyrdom on performing Taraweeh prayers in the nearby mosque. She was known as a religious person who
would always recite the Quran. A short while ago, she visited Al-Aqsa Mosque, a dream she fondly spoke of. Her school notes were full of the expressions of martyrdom, Al-Aqsa and Palestine.
Nouf was also known for her intelligence and wittiness, which was beyond her age, which was clear from the way she carried out the stabbing attack, as revealed by a video taken from the
surveillance cameras in the settlement.
2 june 2017
The Israeli occupation army on Friday evening handed over the body of a 16-year-old Palestinian girl to her family.
The Israeli army returned the body of slain Nouf Nfei’at, from Jenin’s southern town of Yabad, to her family at the main entrance to Salem military camp, west of Jenin. Jenin governor,
representatives of the Palestinian military liaison and the Red Crescent, along with a number of the casualty’s family members, were in attendance.
The victim’s body was transferred to Dr. Khalil Salman Hospital in Jenin by the Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics.
The funeral procession is slated to kick off on Saturday at 10 a.m. outside Jenin Public Hospital on way to her family home, before heading to the local cemetery.
Nfei’at was shot and injured by the occupation army on Thursday on claims that she carried out an anti-occupation stabbing attack near the illegal settlement outpost of Mevo Dotan. She was
pronounced dead on Friday at an Israeli hospital.
Nawf Eqab Enfei’at 16
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed, Friday, that the Palestinian teenage girl, who was shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire, on Thursday, has died from her wounds at an
Israeli hospital.
The Ministry said the child, Nawf Eqab Enfei’at, 16, was from Ya’bad town, southwest of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The statement came after the Israeli Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, where she was receiving treatment, announced that she succumbed to her wounds.
Nawf was shot, and seriously injured, at a military roadblock near Mavo Dotan illegal Israeli colony, built on Palestinian lands, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, reportedly
after she stabbed a soldier.
Her father said the family was shocked to hear about her death, especially since her lawyer told them that the Israeli military prosecutor’s office has scheduled a court hearing for her, for this
coming Sunday.
He added that the Israeli army did not contact the family, even to inform them about a date to transfer her corpse back to them.
The family was not allowed to visit with her after her injury, and only knew she suffered serious wounds.
1 june 2017
Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured, Thursday, a Palestinian teenage girl, near Mavo Dotan illegal Israeli colony, built on Palestinian lands, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, reportedly after she stabbed a soldier.
Israeli sources said the girl suffered a severe injury, after the soldiers shot her in the stomach, while the wounded soldier sustained a mild injury and was moved to a hospital.
The girl, later identified as Nawf Eqab Enfei’at, 16, received treatment at the scene, and was later moved to a hospital.
Israeli daily Haaretz quoted colonist settlers claiming that the soldiers demanded that she stays away from the post, “but she approached them, and stabbed one before she was shot.”
Following the incident, the army closed the main Palestinian road, linking between the governorates of Jenin and Tulkarem, also blocking traffic to all villages and towns near Jenin city.