A 4-year-old Palestinian girl has tragically died after being hit in the head by a stray bullet as she sat down with her family to eat at home during a Ramadan dinner.

4-year-old Rafif Qara’een was reportedly hit by an M-16 caliber bullet as she was sitting down to eat the traditional iftar evening meal to break the family’s fast during Ramadan.

The incident happened in the Issawiya neighborhood of East Jerusalem on May 21, 2020.

Local news agencies report that the bullet hit the girl in the head.

She was rushed to the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in a life-threatening condition.

An expert team of the pediatric neurosurgeons reportedly operated on the 4-year-old, however, the hospital said that her brain injury was extremely severe.

The 4-year-old girl had died.

Her family said they did not realize she had been shot until they reached the hospital and the doctors informed them.

The police said they suspected that the bullet had been fired from Anata, a town that is located over the separation wall between Jerusalem and the West Bank controlled the Palestinian Authority.

However, locals in the Issawiya reportedly doubt this version as they say that the family lives in the center of the neighborhood.

The family said they did not hear a gun being fired in the neighborhood.

Mahmoud Abu Riyaleh, the grandfather of the 4-year-old girl, said he could not believe that their baby girl went away just like that.

No arrests have been made so far.

It is still not clear who fired the deadly gun.