The grandmother of two-year-old girl Laila al-Khatib, who was killed by Israeli sniper fire yesterday in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin while she was eating at home, has shared details about the shooting, Al Jazeera reports.

According to Al Jazeera, in videos shared by journalists on Instagram, the grandmother recalled: “We were here having dinner and there was gunfire, the windows broke. When the girls heard the gunfire, they started running inside.

“The girl, her mother was feeding her. She got a bullet from the sniper in her head.”

The grandmother was quoted as saying: “When we asked the sniper what he gained by killing her, he said, ‘Sorry, it was not intentional.’ May God avenge them because they are child-killers.”

“This child had no fault. Why did they kill her?”

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