Palestinian child wounded in Israeli gunfire loses eye

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- 13-year-old Zakariya al-Julani, from Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem, has lost his left eye at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital as a result of his exposure to a gunfire attack a few days ago by an Israeli female soldier near the camp.

Zakariya had suffered his eye injury immediately after he and other students left the camp's UNRWA school last Tuesday when a female sniper opened fire with no reason from a watchtower at the military checkpoint of Shuafat.

There were no violent events or stone throwing in the area where the shooting incident took place.

The child was then rushed to Hadassah hospital where he underwent surgery to remove a rubber bullet that penetrated his left eye area and to stop the bleeding.

According to his family, the Israeli police investigated the incident and admitted that the situation in the camp and its checkpoint was calm.

However, the soldier who committed the crime has not been arrested.

During the past two weeks, Israeli soldiers at the same watchtower opened fire at two children and caused them rubber bullet injuries.