Killing of Hadeel al-Hashlamon

Hadeel al-Hashlamon was an 18-year-old Palestinian woman who was shot and killed on September 22, 2015 by an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

According to the Israeli army, the IDF, Hashlamon was shot while trying to stab a soldier, but pro-Palestinian groups contested this, saying there is no video or photographic evidence of the moment of the shooting.

[2] According to the witness Fawaz Abu Aisheh, 34, who had stood close to Hashlamon in the checkpoint and spoken to her, the soldiers ordered her to "go back" in Hebrew - a language she didn't seem to know.

[6] The Hebron-based activist group Youth Against Settlements published a set of photos on their Facebook page from the incident seconds before Hashlamon was shot.

The photos were taken by a Brazilian volunteer, Marcel Lame, of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel who also published them on his blog.

[1] The Palmedia media center published a two-and-a-half minute long video on its Youtube-channel showing Hashlamon's lifeless body lying on the ground while settlers and other bystanders watch.

The human rights organization Amnesty International investigated the killing of Hashlamon and concluded in a report issued a few days after the incident that the evidence indicated that it was an extrajudicial execution.

[2] The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem also investigated the killing and found that there was no justification for shooting Hashlamon with multiple bullets.

"[4] The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on January 20, 2016 on issues of concern in the occupied Palestinian territories.

"[9] On February 17, 2016, nine American congressmen and Senator Patrick Leahy wrote a letter to the US State Department inquiring about "specific allegations of gross violations of human rights" by the security forces of Egypt and Israel.