One-fifth of children Israel has killed in the West Bank in the last quarter century have been killed in the past year.
A Palestinian girl looks out of the window of a shrapnel-pocked building in Jenin in the aftermath of a raid by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city on May 23, 2024.Israeli forces and settlers are killing one Palestinian child every two days on average in the occupied West Bank, a children’s rights group has reported, amid Israel’s intensifying violence against Palestinians in the last year.
Israeli forces and settlers targeted and killed these children across a variety of situations.
This includes the body of 4-year-old Ruqaya Ahmad Odeh Jahalin, who was shot in the back by Israeli forces in January. She had just passed an Israeli checkpoint in a taxi with her mother when a car behind theirs did not stop at the checkpoint, and Israeli forces opened fire on the vehicles. Israeli officials held her body for 10 days.
Israeli forces have also mutilated the bodies of Palestinians they’ve killed. Last week, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights postedin which Israeli forces used a bulldozer to desecrate the body of a 17-year-old boy, Majed Fida Abu Zeina, who they killed in Far’a refugee camp, Israeli forces shot him and blocked paramedics from reaching him, leaving him to bleed for an hour and a half.
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