Palestine calls Israeli soldier taking infant girl from Gaza ‘heinous crime’

Israeli media reported that an army captain admitted to taking the baby to an unknown place in Israel, claiming to have found her crying in Gaza during the recent assault. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry in Ramallah stated that the act is evidence of the Israeli occupation army committing severe crimes against civilians without oversight or accountability.

Palestinian officials on Tuesday called an Israeli soldier taking an infant girl from Gaza “a heinous crime,” saying she should be handed back immediately.

“The kidnapping of the infant girl from the Gaza Strip is evidence that the (Israeli) occupation army is committing the most heinous crimes against civilians without oversight or accountability,” the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, based in the West Bank city of Ramallah, said in a statement.

It called on Israeli authorities “to immediately hand over the infant to the Palestinian National Authority.”

The ministry added that the commission of such an act indicates that it was not the first or the last to be committed in Gaza at the hands of Israeli soldiers.