Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ dismayed by indiscriminate shooting of schoolgirl by Israeli forces 

3 March After a 12-year-old girl was shot in the head while sitting at her desk in a United Nations school in the Palestinian territory, a top Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ relief official in the region has expressed dismay at the Israeli military's indiscriminate use of force in civilian areas.

Peter Hansen, Commissioner-General of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA), visited the girl and her family yesterday at the intensive care unit of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City where she is receiving treatment.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA said the girl was attending an Agency-run school when she was wounded by retaliatory fire from Israeli forces after an Israeli tank was fired upon near the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.