Abir Aramin was fatally wounded in January 2007 after buying sweets with her sister and two friends following

a maths exam at their school.

Israeli border policemen, deployed in Anata to guard the construction of the ‘separation wall’, routinely countered stone throwing protesters with tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets.

Eyewitnesses claimed that border guards, who had clashed with stone-throwing Palestinian rioters nearby, fired at the girl from a passing jeep. Bleeding heavily from a head wound, Abir was taken to hospital where she died two days later. Police investigators said there was no evidence she had been killed by a rubber bullet.