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According to the IDF, Hashlamon continued to move towards the soldiers even after warning shots had been fired. But according to
Amnesty, that claim is contradicted by witness statements and photos of Hashlamon showing her standing still. The photo the IDF released of Hashlamon's knife showed a knife
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Four more soldiers arrived at the scene and pointed their guns at
Hashlamon and Abu Aisheh. One of them fired a warning shot at the ground. The soldiers pushed Abu Aisheh away and refused his offer for translation help. At this point Hashlamon was behind metal rails separating her from the soldiers.
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According to the witness Fawaz Abu Aisheh, 34, who had stood close to
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The soldier who shot the warning shot, shot
Hashlamon in her left leg causing her to fall and drop her bag. According to Abu Aisheh, it also caused her to drop a knife with a brown handle that she had been hiding under her niqab. The soldier then moved closer to Hashlamon who lay motionless on the
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Israeli soldiers pointing their guns at her and the witness Abu Aisheh and were widely circulated in Israeli, Palestinian and international media. The Palmedia media center published a two-and-a-half minute long video on its Youtube-channel showing
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inquiring about "specific allegations of gross violations of human rights" by the security forces of Egypt and Israel. Among the allegations listed were the killing of Hadeel al-Hashlamon. They asked the State
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Hashlamon and concluded in a report issued a few days after the incident that the evidence indicated that it was an extrajudicial execution. It claimed that Hashlamon "at no time posed a sufficient threat to the soldiers to make their use of deliberate lethal force
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A metal detector beeped when she tried to pass through the checkpoint and she was ordered to open her bag for a search. She was standing about three meters from the soldiers. She opened her bag and showed it to them who shouted at her, causing her to freeze.
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