The Palestinian refugee Khadija Ahmad Akleh was shot and injured by the Turkish border cops as she tried to reach out to Turkey, fleeing beset Syria.
A resident of the blockaded Yarmouk Camp in southern Damascus, the refugee sustained spine fractures after she lost footing and fell off a cliff in Khirbet Al-Jouz borderland. She was rushed to the Jisr Al-Shughur hospital in Syria for urgent treatment.