JERUSALEM – An Israeli court has ordered the government to pay US$432,000 to the family of a prominent Palestinian peace activist whose 10-year-old daughter was killed by an Israeli rubber bullet in 2007.
Abir Aramin was standing at a distance from stone-throwing demonstrators in the village of Anata, north of Jerusalem, when Israeli forces fired rubber-coated steel bullets to disperse the protest. One hit Abir, and she died of her wounds two days later.
Her father, Basam Aramin, is a founder of Combatants for Peace, a group of former Israeli and Palestinian fighters who now promote peaceful coexistence.
Originally, police claimed a rock killed the girl. But an autopsy ended up showing she was hit by a stray bullet.
The ruling, issued last week, was made public late Sunday.
