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Sunday 06 Dec 2015 - 16:07 Makkah mean time-24-2-1437
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Bethlehem, (IINA) - A video has emerged apparently showing an Israeli soldier dropping a knife on the ground and forcing a terrified Palestinian girl to pick it up before she is arrested, The Electronic Intifada (EI) reported.
The video was circulated widely in Palestinian media and on social networks recently, the same day when two more Palestinian teenagers were shot dead by Israeli occupation forces, who claimed that the youths had attempted to carry out stabbings.
The Palestinian news outlet Donia Al-Watan said the video was recorded by a Palestinian who witnessed the incident at an Israeli military checkpoint south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
Several outlets identified the girl in the video as 14-year-old Sabreen Sanad.
The 3-minute video appears to have been filmed from a vehicle stopped at the checkpoint. At the beginning, a man in civilian clothes can be seen speaking to the girl next to a white truck. Israeli soldiers are standing nearby and giving orders to others.
The girl is not restrained by the soldiers and walks toward the cab of the white truck. At 1:30, one of the soldiers throws what appears to be a knife onto the ground.
The girl, with her arms raised near her chest, trembles. The soldier then appears to order her to bend down and pick up the knife.
She kneels down and picks it up, and then appears to talk to the soldier as she holds it. As she kneels, a second soldier aims his weapon at her.
A third soldier then approaches and leads her away with her hands behind her back.
As with other similar incidents, the video has fueled widespread suspicions that many of the alleged stabbing attempts in which Palestinians were killed involved the planting of evidence.
On Tuesday morning, Israeli occupation forces shot dead 16-year-old Mamoun Raed al-Khateeb near the Gush Etzion bloc of settlements in the occupied West Bank, claiming he tried to stab a man.
No one was injured in the alleged stabbing, but Israeli media reported that a 35-year-old bystander was injured by the Israeli army gunfire that killed Mamoun.
The boy, from Doha village near Bethlehem, was a high schooler in the 10th grade.
More than 100 Palestinians have been killed since 1 October, many of them in what human rights organizations and international monitors have condemned as summary executions.
In addition to summary executions of Palestinians who present no immediate danger, Israel continues to demolish homes belonging to families of Palestinians whom it accuses of attacks.
On Wednesday, a massive group of Israeli occupation forces invaded and locked down Shuafat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem.
The forces demolished a home belonging to the family of Ibrahim al-Akkari, who was shot dead last year after driving his vehicle into pedestrians, killing an Israeli border policeman and injuring 13 other persons, two seriously, at a light rail station in occupied East Jerusalem.
The United Nations and human rights groups say the practice of punitive home demolitions amounts to collective punishment and violates international law.
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