“The martyrs from that battle are still dead. The effects of that 2002 battle, among the biggest of the second Palestinian uprising, linger. The camp has reemerged as a stronghold of Palestinian militancy two decades after Israel invaded the camp with tanks and helicopters, flattening homes. Israel contends the intensified military activities are a counterterrorism effort and has focused its operations on the hometowns of assailants - particularly the city of Jenin and its adjacent refugee camp. Israeli military raids have been met regularly with Palestinian gunfire and rippled into bloody battles. Without mentioning Sadeel, the army said its arrest operation had sparked a “massive exchange of fire with terrorists” and that Israeli forces had opened fire on gunmen and those throwing explosive devices. The Israeli military declined to answer multiple questions about the military vehicles. Minutes after she posted the clip to Telegram, she was lying in her driveway, brain-dead. It remains unclear whether it was the same jeep. The last video taken on Sadeel’s phone shows a similar military jeep moving along a dusty road some 200 meters (yards) from where she stood. Two motorists, a woman in her 30s and a young man, were wounded when they came under fire from the same jeep, neighbors said. Sadeel’s family believes the bullet that killed her likely came from an Israeli army jeep rumbling down their quiet street that morning, according to surveillance footage. It gave no explanation for Sadeel's death, saying the circumstances are “under examination.”
The Israeli army often accuses Palestinian militants of endangering civilians by using residential areas for cover. “We’re not just talking about Sadeel’s death, we’re talking about daily killings and no accountability that could serve as a way to prevent Israel from killing more civilians in the future,” said Shawan Jabarin, director of Al Haq, a Palestinian human rights group.
But civilians have also been killed, including a 2-year-old boy earlier this month and a 15-year-old boy in last week's same Jenin camp raid. The army says that number is much higher. So far this year, nearly 140 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank, according to the AP’s count, almost half of them affiliated with militant groups. The army launched a widespread campaign into Palestinian towns last year in response to a wave of Palestinian attacks inside Israel. The killing of Sadeel - one of 12 Palestinians under the age of 16 killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank this year, according to a tally by The Associated Press - has sparked condemnation from rights groups and renewed scrutiny of the military’s record of causing civilian casualties. Witness accounts and surveillance videos suggest there were no clashes at that time on her street and that the fighting between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces was unfolding some 650 meters (700 yards) west of her home. “They killed my daughter and they killed her dreams.” She had ambitions to become a nurse and save lives,” her father, Ghassan Naghniyeh, 46, said from his vine-covered driveway where Sadeel was shot.
Sadeel's eighth-grade classmates wrapped her in the uniform she would no longer wear. That's when he said he was burned and later dropped off on Lemon, said.Typically in Palestinian funerals, older men - relatives and friends - drape the dead in the flags of militant groups. Currently, police are struggling to work with the often confusing information he is providing about the incident.Īccording to The OC Register: " told police he was in a car riding with friends when they pulled over and got out of the car near Lemon Street on the 91. The LA Times reports that police found 34-year-old Rene Lopex Montez "with unexplained second- and third-degree burns over 80% of his body." His clothes were burned off, and Montez told police "he'd been doused with gasoline and set afire at another location, then dropped off." Family members of the critically injured man say that he is mentally ill and he is on medication for schizophrenia. Authorities in Anaheim are working on putting together the pieces of a very disturbing puzzle they uncovered on Thursday on North Lemon Street near the 91 Freeway.
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