This is from the Independent in the UK:

"The army admitted shortly after the shooting near the Girit outpost that it had been a mistake. The girl was carrying a bag which the army said that the soldiers had thought contained explosives, but which was found to contain schoolbooks. Although the family is at a loss to explain why she had wandered into a dangerous prohibited zone, they say she was on her way to school at the time."

CTV.ca says "She was killed on Oct.5, as she made her way to school. Her friends say that, because they were running late, they took a shortcut -- a route that ventured dangerously close to an area deemed off-limits by the Israeli army."

Why the two stories? Was she shot while "on her way to school" as the family claims?

Or was she "taking a shortcut dangerously close to the IDF off-limits area?

We need to look at a map and find where the school is, where her home is, and where the most direct route to the school is. Was she just cutting corners as the one "eyewitness" says. And what about her behavior of walking towards the guard tower? How do you explain that? Why would she "drop her backpack" if she was walking to school?

After reading nearly a dozen accounts of the killing (Steve calls it murder. But that is just his opinion. The Israeli courts have cleared him of the charges)there are still too many unanswered questions to automatically condemn the IDF soldiers involved. Soldiers who when interviewed afterwards were shaken up and told reporters that their "hearts ached for the little girl."