The extremely detailed investigation by David Halbfinger in The New York Times on the killing of Rouzan al-Najjar on June 1, 2018, at the Gaza border, requires Israel to reconsider our conduct toward the Palestinian protesters on the other side of the fence. This is the most important newspaper in the world, a reporter sent to Israel who could not be characterized as hostile to us, and an investigation that is dispassionate and careful in its conclusions.

Some 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli snipers; these included 60 to 70 who were not the targets of fire as of August, a senior official of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told the newspaper. 

Officials must not allow this system to continue with the Friday routine, where, even on days of relative calm, at least one or two youths are killed by our forces’ fire.

The case involves a 20-year-old woman wearing a white paramedic's lab coat whose death by IDF fire was found to have come from a distance where it was clear that she was a paramedic; this is not the typical story of a Hamas activist. She was the daughter of a family of Palestinian refugees from Kefar Salamah near Jaffa in the center of Israel. Aside from a visit to Egypt when she was 3, she never left the Gaza Strip and grew up in that big prison.