The girl was the fourth young person to be killed by gunfire, most of which consisted of stray or random shots from Israeli soldiers, in the Gaza Strip this week.

11-Year-Old Palestinian Girl Is Killed in Gaza
An 11-year-old Palestinian girl walking home from school was hit by a stray bullet today and later died, as the violence continued in the southern Gaza Strip.

The girl who died, identified as Hanin Abu Sita, of Rafah, apparently did not even realize she had been hit by a bullet, a neighbor said. The neighbor said the girl suddenly felt sick while she was walking home from school with her sister.

At home, her mother found a wound in her stomach on the left side. She was taken to Al Najar hospital in Rafah, where she died during an operation to remove what turned out to be a bullet, a doctor there said.

The Israeli military said it was checking reports of the incident from the area, where violence has flared over the past week.

The girl was the fourth young person to be killed by gunfire, most of which consisted of stray or random shots from Israeli soldiers, in the Gaza Strip this week.
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