The Age (& Sydney Morning Herald) | Rachael Dexter, Gemma Grant | 23 November 2024
Suddenly the media are interested in an innocent woman getting deliberately shot by Israel because she is Australian – what about the other 15,000 plus shot or murdered in the West Bank over the last few years – Mark
A 20-year-old Australian woman could lose vision in one eye after allegedly being shot at by Israeli forces in an apartment near her university campus in the occupied West Bank.
Ranem Abu-Izneid is en route to Melbourne after sustaining serious injuries to her face, chest and right eye from metal shrapnel after a bullet was shot into her shared student accommodation on November 15, according to her parents and her university.
The Australian citizen, who was born in Jordan and whose family is Palestinian, was studying dentistry at al-Quds University in Abu Dis town in the Palestinian territories near Jerusalem, which is in a non-combat zone.
Details of the alleged incident were provided to this masthead in statements from her family members, based on a witness account from her flatmate, and confirmed by a dean at her university.
Photos of the bullet and Abu-Izneid’s facial injuries have also been seen by this masthead, as well as medical reports from hospitals that treated her in Ramallah and Jerusalem.
The Israeli embassy in Australia and the Israel Defence Forces have been contacted for comment.
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