[News] These are the 35 Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2016
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These are the Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2016
Maureen Clare
<https://electronicintifada.net/people/maureen-clare-murphy>25 January 2017
For Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, 2016 was the
deadliest year in the past decade
<http://www.dci-palestine.org/children_in_west_bank_face_deadliest_year_of_past_decade>.
Thirty-five Palestinian children were killed by Israeli soldiers, police
and armed civilians during the year, all but four of the deadly
incidents taking place in the West Bank. Children account for a third of
the 105 Palestinians killed
<https://electronicintifada.net/content/month-pictures-december-2016/19106>
by Israeli forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during 2016.
Most, but certainly not all, of those children were killed during the
course of what Israel alleges were attacks or attempted attacks, mainly
on soldiers at checkpoints in the West Bank.
Two Israeli civilians were killed in such incidents, one a 13-year-old
girl stabbed to death
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-vows-seize-more-land-after-girl-slain-settlement>
in her bedroom in a West Bank settlement, the sole Israeli child killed
by a Palestinian during the year.
But in the vast majority of alleged attacks that left a Palestinian
child dead, no Israeli civilians or soldiers were injured. In a handful
of cases, Israeli soldiers were reported to have suffered only light
injuries.
In several incidents, there may not have been any attempted attack when
a Palestinian child was shot and killed. Amnesty International has
called for one such slaying to be investigated as an extrajudicial
execution.
Other children were killed on their way to class, or coming home from a
pool party. Several were shot dead while protesting the occupation. A
brother and sister were killed in their Gaza home when their
neighborhood was hit in an Israeli airstrike.
As Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCIP) points out,
“Accountability for shootings [of Palestinian children] by Israeli
forces is extremely rare. Only one incident
<http://stories.dci-palestine.org/beitunia-boys/#2> since 2014 has
resulted in an indictment.”
The group’s accountability program director Ayed Abu Eqtaish stated:
“Intentional lethal force now appears to be routinely used by Israeli
forces, even in unjustified situations, with no accountability, putting
more and more children at risk.”
DCIP has summarized other ways Israel violated Palestinian children’s
rights <http://www.dci-palestine.org/year_in_review_2016> during the year.
These are the Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in 2016:
Ahmad Younis Ahmad al-Kawazba, 17
Ahmad, from the village of Sair in the southern occupied West Bank, was
shot dead by Israeli forces after allegedly stabbing and lightly
wounding a soldier in the area of the Gush Etzion intersection near the
city of Hebron on 5 January.
Hebron’s district attorney said the “autopsy suggested the 17-year-old
had been left to bleed to death and had received no medical treatment,”
the Ma’an News Agency reported
<http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769685>.
Ahmad was buried next to his friend and schoolmate
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKQsaaJLO_M> Mahmoud al-Shalalda, who
was shot and killed by Israeli forces
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/netanyahu-lashes-out-sweden-over-execution-accusations>
in November 2015.
Alaa al-Din Abd Muhammad al-Kawazba, 17
Israeli forces shot and killed
<http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769699> Alaa al-Din along with
two of his adult cousins near the Gush Etzion bloc of Israeli
settlements north of Hebron on 7 January. The army claimed the three
were “armed with knives” and attempted to attack soldiers. No soldiers
were reported injured during the attack. Alaa al-Din was from the
Hebron-area village of Sair.
Khalil Muhammad Issa Wadi, 15
Khalil was shot dead by Israeli forces after he allegedly attempted to
stab a soldier <http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769699> at the
Beit Einoun junction near Hebron on 7 January. No Israelis were reported
injured during the incident. The boy’s adult brother, Mahmoud, was shot
and killed <http://imemc.org/article/73848/> by Israeli forces in the
same location in November 2015.
Like Ahmad al-Kawazba and Alaa al-Din Kawazba, Khalil was from the
Hebron-area village of Sair. He was at least the 10th resident of the
village to be slain by Israeli forces since October 2015, including the
November 2015 execution in a Hebron hospital room
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-executes-palestinian-hospital-room>
of Abdallah Azzam al-Shalalda and the killing of a disabled father of a
young baby
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-soldiers-kill-father-three-week-old-baby>
in December 2015.
Adnan Ayid Hamid al-Mashni, 17
Youth wearing jacket stands in front of palm fronds
Adnan Ayid Hamid al-Mashni
An investigation <http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.698814>
by the Tel Aviv newspaper /Haaretz/ found that Adnan, from the village
of Shuyukh, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers at the Beit Einoun
junction near the West Bank city of Hebron while on his way to physics
class on 12 January.
Adnan had traveled to the junction in a taxi van and crossed the road
and entered into a second van when another young man in the vehicle
jumped out and yelled “God is great” while brandishing a knife or
hatchet, according to /Haaretz/.
The armed young man, Muhammad Kawazba from the village of Sair, was
immediately shot and killed. The driver of the van from which Kawazba
emerged “tried to drive away as fast as he could, for fear that he too
would be shot,” /Haaretz/ added. “The soldiers, seeing the vehicle
pulling out, opened fire at it, though they had no idea who was inside it.”
The driver managed to escape on foot while Adnan, still inside the van,
was struck in the upper right side of his body and died soon after in
hospital.
Ruqayya Abu Eid, 13
Ruqayya was shot dead
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-settlement-guards-kill-young-palestinians>
by a private security guard after she allegedly attempted to stab him in
the Anatot settlement near Jerusalem on 23 January.
A Palestinian member of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, condemned
<http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.699046> the girl’s slaying. “Even
if she had a knife, it would have been possible to arrest a girl that
age instead of killing her,” Esawi Frej of the Meretz party said.
/Haaretz/ reported
<http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.700135> that Ruqayya died
of a single bullet wound to the heart.
“I have no explanation for her decision,” the girl’s father told the
paper. “There were two guards there, and they could have overcome her. A
little girl. They are trained and armed, you know, so how is it they
could not arrest a little girl of 13? Was a girl of 13 a threat to them?
Whatever she planned to do, they could still have arrested her.”
Ruqayya was laid to rest in the village of al-Karmel east of the West
Bank town of Yatta, near Hebron.
Hussein Abu Ghosh, 17
Hussein was shot dead
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-settlement-guards-kill-young-palestinians>
by an Israeli security guard at a supermarket in Beit Horon settlement
near the central West Bank city of Ramallah on 25 January.
The youth was killed along with Ibrahim Usama Allan, 23, after stabbing
two Israeli women; one of the women, 24-year-old Shlomit Krigman, died
from her injuries the following day. Israeli media reported that Allan
and Hussein were shot as they ran, suggesting the two may have been
extrajudicially executed.
Israeli forces destroyed
<https://www.yahoo.com/news/israeli-forces-destroy-home-palestinian-attacker-072516671.html>
Hussein’s family home in Qalandiya refugee camp near Ramallah in April.
Punitive home demolitions, along with other acts of collective
punishment, are considered a war crime
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israels-high-court-champions-revenge-against-palestinian-families>
under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Ahmad Hassan Abd al-Latif Tubah, 17
Ahmad, from the village of Kufr Jammal, was killed by Israeli forces
after allegedly attempting to stab a soldier near a settlement in the
Tulkarm, West Bank, area on 1 February. No soldiers were reported
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinian-authority-officer-turns-his-gun-israel>
to have been injured.
“According to media reports, he crossed the [Israel’s wall in the West
Bank] without an entry permit and was discovered by soldiers who tried
to apprehend him. He then pulled a knife on them and was shot,” the
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem reported.
Haitham Saada, 14
Haitham died
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israels-excessive-force-kills-two-more-children>
after he was hit by two bullets fired by soldiers near the entrance to
Halhoul village, near Hebron, on 5 February. The army said that the boy
was preparing to throw a Molotov cocktail at soldiers when he was killed.
“Other than Haitham’s younger cousin, Wajdi, who was also in his class
and was with him when he died, and the soldiers, of course, there are no
eyewitnesses who can relate what happened and why Haitham was shot and
killed,” the Tel Aviv newspaper /Haaretz/ reported
<http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.702771> at the time.
“Wajdi was arrested on the spot and is still incarcerated in Ofer Camp,
near Ramallah. He has not been allowed visitors.”
Omar Yousif Ismail Madi, 15
Omar was slain by a bullet when Israeli soldiers fired on youths who
were throwing stones at them in Arroub refugee camp near Hebron on 9
February. The city’s district attorney told the Ma’an News Agency
<http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770224> that the boy “died
after being hit by a single bullet that entered his body from the right
side of his chest.” The bullet “penetrated the teen’s liver, kidneys,
and spleen before exiting his body from the lower left side of his rib
cage.”
Nihad Raed Muhammad Waked, 15, and Fuad Marwan Kamal Waked, 15
Nihad and Fuad were shot and killed by Israeli forces after they
allegedly opened fire at soldiers on 14 February. No Israelis were
injured during the incident near the village of al-Araqa, west of the
northern West Bank town of Jenin. Palestinian emergency medics were
reportedly prevented from providing treatment at the scene.
“Soldiers reported that one of the Palestinians was armed with a
makeshift weapon and another was carrying a knife,” /Haaretz/ reported
<http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.703159>. The boys’ families
“vehemently denied the army’s claim they had fired at the soldiers and
said the two were roaming farming lands owned by the family that are
adjacent to [Israel’s] West Bank barrier,” the paper added.
“I know the families and the two youths, these are not families that
deal with arms or have access to arms,” a teacher in al-Araqa who knew
the teens told /Haaretz/. “These are just kids and to attribute an
attempted shooting to them sounds highly unlikely or believable.”
Naim Ahmad Yousif Safi, 16
Naim was shot and killed
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/three-boys-among-6-palestinians-killed-during-bloody-weekend>
after he allegedly attempted to stab an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint
north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on 14 February. Israeli police
told media the teen approached soldiers while carrying a knife. No
Israelis were reported injured during the incident. Naim was from the
nearby village of al-Ubediya.
Qusay Abu al-Rub, 16
Qusay Abu al-Rub (via Ma’an News Agency
<https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770383>)
Soldiers fired on Qusay after he allegedly attempted to stab one of them
at the Beita checkpoint near Nablus in the northern West Bank on 21
February. No Israelis were injured during the incident. Palestinian
medics were reportedly prevented from accessing the wounded boy. Qusay,
from Qabatiya village in the northern West Bank, was the 10th youth
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-soldier-killed-friendly-fire>
from the town to be slain since October 2015.
Mahmoud Shaalan, 16
Mahmoud, a Palestinian American resident of the Ramallah-area village of
Deir Dibwan, was shot dead by Israeli forces near a checkpoint in the
central West Bank on 26 February. Israel claimed that the boy had tried
to stab soldiers when he was killed.
Amnesty International has stated that his death – as well as that of
more than a dozen other Palestinians killed by Israeli forces over the
past year – should be investigated as a possible extrajudicial execution
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/year-atrocities-palestine>.
An eyewitness testified to the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem that
Mahmoud had attempted to cross a checkpoint and was turned away by soldiers.
“As he was walking away from the soldiers, one soldier shot Mahmoud
Muhammad Ali Shaalan from some distance away with around three bullets.
He immediately fell to the ground, and the soldier then approached and
shot him twice more, according to the witness,” Amnesty states.
An autopsy found that no bullets had been fired from close range,
throwing into question Israel’s claim that Mahmoud was attempting to
stab soldiers when he was killed.
Witnesses told <http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.708155>
/Haaretz/ that soldiers prevented a Palestinian ambulance from
evacuating the boy, and that his naked body lay on the road for more
than two hours.
Fifteen rights and faith groups in the US have called on the Obama
administration to investigate the killing. A top US diplomat told
concerned groups
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/us-concerned-over-israeli-slaying-palestinian-american-teen>
that the US embassy in Tel Aviv asked Israel to investigate Mahmoud’s death.
Labib Khaldoun Anwar Abd al-Azzam, 17 and Muhammad Hashim Ali
Zaghlawan, 17
Labib and Muhammad, both from Qaryut village near the West Bank city of
Nablus, were shot dead by Israeli forces on 2 March after allegedly
attacking and lightly injuring a settler as he was leaving his home in
the Eli colony. The settler was wearing his army uniform, and was en
route to the military reserve unit he serves in, Israeli media reported.
Abd al-Rahman Radad, 17
Abd al-Rahman, from al-Zawiya village near the West Bank town of Salfit,
was shot and killed by police after he allegedly stabbed and wounded an
Israeli man near Petah Tikva, a city in Israel, on 18 March. Graphic
video
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/video-let-him-die-say-israelis-palestinian-boy-lays-bleeding>
shows Abd al-Rahman lying on the floor of a liquor store, gravely
injured and apparently struggling to breathe, as Israelis curse him and
call for him to die.
Ahmad Yousif Ismail Amer, 16
Ahmad was shot dead
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/video-let-him-die-say-israelis-palestinian-boy-lays-bleeding>
by Israeli forces at a military checkpoint outside of al-Zawiya village
near the West Bank town of Salfit on 9 March. The village was blockaded
by the military after one of its residents, Abd al-Rahman Radad,
allegedly stabbed an Israeli before being shot dead by police.
An army spokesperson told media that an “assailant armed with a knife”
approached the checkpoint and soldiers “thwarted” the attack by shooting
him dead. No Israelis were injured during the incident.
Another Palestinian was shot during the incident, and a local official
said that both wounded Palestinians were left bleeding while Palestinian
emergency medics were prevented from reaching them.
Ahmad, from the nearby village of Masha, reportedly left a note
<https://www.facebook.com/QudsN/photos/a.119620728114837.22171.119605611449682/1108461539230746/?type=1&theater>
bidding farewell to his parents, asking them for their forgiveness.
Yasin Abu Khusa, 9, and Isra Abu Khusa, 6
Yasin and Isra, brother and sister, were killed during an Israeli air
strike
<https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-robs-gaza-family-two-children-one-night/16061>
on their neighborhood in northern Gaza on 12 March.
The Abu Khusa family home, located on the outskirts of Beit Hanoun, had
been previously attacked twice by Israel in recent years. They had asked
the authorities in Gaza that they be relocated somewhere safer, but
their request went unanswered, the family told The Electronic Intifada.
They said they did not receive any financial aid to repair damage caused
during previous attacks.
Yusif Walid Mustafa al-Tarayra, 17
Yusif, from the village of Bani Naim, was shot dead by soldiers after he
hit a military officer with his car in Kiryat Arba settlement near
Hebron on 14 March. The officer was lightly injured, according to the
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.
Abdallah al-Ajluni, 16
Abdallah, from the West Bank city of Hebron, was shot dead
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israels-well-documented-crimes-met-silence>
by Israeli Border Police after he stabbed and lightly injured a soldier
at at checkpoint near the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron’s Old City on 19 March.
Ibrahim Salih Hassan Taha, 16
Ibrahim was killed along with his pregnant adult sister
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/brother-and-sister-slain-checkpoint-were-executed-palestinians-say>,
Maram Salih Hassan Abu Ismail, a 23-year-old mother of two small
children, at the Qalandiya military checkpoint between Ramallah and
Jerusalem on 27 April.
Israeli police claimed the siblings were carrying knives and attempted
to attack soldiers. No Israelis were injured during the incident.
Israel’s justice ministry declined to open an investigation
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinian-woman-shot-checkpoint>
after an initial probe found that the brother and sister were shot by
civilian security guards and not by police.
Mahmoud Badran, 15
Mahmoud, from the central West Bank village of Beit Ur al-Tahta, was
killed when Israeli forces opened fire on a car of young Palestinians
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/down-syndrome-man-child-killed-israeli-soldiers>
returning from a late-night pool party celebrating Ramadan on 21 June.
Five others were injured during the incident, including the driver of
the car, who lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a wall
<http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20160622_killing_of_mahmoud_badran>.
The army admitted the Palestinians were “mistakenly hit” while soldiers
were responding to reports of rock-throwing and firebombing on a highway
used by settlers in the West Bank.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that soldiers prevented
paramedics from providing first aid to the injured Palestinians for more
than 90 minutes.
Four boys pose for camera while in a swimming pool
Mahmoud Badran, at right, during the pool party he attended shortly
before he was killed. (B’Tselem
<http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20160622_killing_of_mahmoud_badran>)
One of the survivors told B’Tselem
<http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20160622_killing_of_mahmoud_badran>
that the shooting came from a civilian car.
“Everything was normal and there was nothing suspicious,” Hadi Badran
testified. “Suddenly we were under fire. I looked at the direction the
fire was coming from and saw a white civilian car. There were two people
there, in civilian clothing, and they were the ones shooting at us.”
“Media reports indicate that the soldiers and officer who opened fire
belonged to the Duchifat regiment of the Kfir brigade, and that they
were passing by, on their way to take care of logistical matters,”
B’Tselem stated, adding that “the soldiers arbitrarily fired at the car,
having no indication that any of its passengers had been involved in
stone or Molotov cocktail throwing.”
According to the rights group, “This shooting incident is a direct
result of military policy which enables, despite the official
prohibition in the [Israeli military’s] open-fire regulations, to use
deadly fire even in cases where there is no threat to life and even when
the soldiers have other, non-lethal, means at their disposal. This
policy is backed by the most senior ranking military and government
officials who do nothing do change it, despite the lethal results.”
Muhammad Nasir Mahmoud Khalil al-Tarayra, 16
Muhammad was shot dead after after stabbing
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-vows-seize-more-land-after-girl-slain-settlement>
a 13-year-old girl, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, in her home in the Kiryat Arba
settlement near Hebron on 30 June.
/The New York Times/ reported
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/world/middleeast/west-bank-kiryat-arba.html>
that Muhammad then locked himself in the girl’s house for some time
while armed residents of the settlement, including the girl’s father,
tried to track down who had breached the settlement’s fence.
When they forced their way into her home, Muhammad, from the nearby
village of Bani Naim, stabbed one of the armed settlers before being
shot dead.
Ariel was rushed to a hospital, where she died a short time later. The
US State Department confirmed
<http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.728224> the girl held American
citizenship. Ariel was the only Israeli child killed by Palestinians
during 2016.
Israeli forces demolished the home belonging to Muhammad’s family in
August
<https://electronicintifada.net/content/month-pictures-august-2016/17846>.
Muhyee al-Din Muhammad Sudqi Sadiq Tibakhi, 10
Muhyee Sidqi al-Tibakhi
Muhyee died after he was shot in the chest and head
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinians-buried-after-jerusalem-killings>
during confrontations that broke out when Israeli forces raided al-Ram
town near Jerusalem on 19 July.
Defense for Children International - Palestine stated
<http://www.dci-palestine.org/palestinian_10_year_old_boy_killed_near_east_jerusalem>
that the “boy died from a sponge-tipped bullet to the chest fired by
Israeli forces.”
Muhyee is the second Palestinian child to be killed by a sponge-tipped
bullet, according to the group. Muhammad Sinokrot
<https://electronicintifada.net/content/anger-jerusalem-after-israel-kills-another-palestinian-teen/13848>,
16, died of his injuries in 2014 after an Israeli Border Police
combatant shot the right side of his head, causing a skull fracture and
brain hemorrhage. An Israeli investigation of Muhammad’s case was closed
without charging the Border Police officer responsible, Defense for
Children said.
Abd al-Rahman Ahmad al-Dabbagh, 15
Abd al-Rahman Ahmad al-Dabbagh (DCIP
<http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_kill_child_with_flare_in_gaza>)
Abd al-Rahman was killed instantly
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/year-atrocities-palestine>
after he was directly hit by a flare bomb fired by an Israeli soldier
during a protest near the boundary between Gaza and Israel on 9 September.
After the teen was hit, “Abd al-Rahman was then seen lying on the
ground, with his head on fire,” a report on the incident by the human
rights group Al-Haq stated
<http://www.alhaq.org/documentation/weekly-focuses/1076-violence-resumes-in-the-opt-israel-kills-six-palestinians-within-ten-days>.
“His shocked friends ran to help him, but the Israeli soldiers pointed
their weapons at them, and stated, ‘whoever will dare and try to
approach will suffer the same fate as him,’” Al-Haq added.
Defense for Children International - Palestine published a video still
<http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_kill_child_with_flare_in_gaza>
showing Abd al-Rahman lying on the ground, flames and smoke coming from
his head.
“An X-ray image shared with DCIP … appears to show the flare punctured
and lodged in Abd al-Rahman’s skull above his left eyebrow,” the group
stated. The projectile that killed Abd al-Rahman is produced by Chemring
Ordnance <http://www.chemringordnance.com/products/products-40-mm.aspx>
and AMTEC Corporation
<http://www.nationaldefensecorp.com/m583a1-illumination.html>, both
based in the US, DCIP added.
Firas al-Khadour, 17
A witness to the slaying of Firas denied
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinian-officer-killed-after-shooting-israeli-soldiers>
Israel’s claim that the teen was attempting to attack soldiers with his
car when he was killed on 16 September.
The witness, who was riding in the car with Firas when he was killed,
said that the vehicle had faulty brakes which failed when it approached
the Kiryat Arba settlement near the West Bank city of Hebron, causing it
to crash into a bus stop.
After the car was stopped, soldiers opened fire on it from multiple
directions, killing Firas and critically wounding the witness.
“Firas began slowing down, but the brakes were not responding at all.
The car’s speed was increasing, and he tried to use the handbrakes to
stop but that did not work out either,” Raghad, the witness, told
Defense for Children International - Palestine
<http://www.dci-palestine.org/eyewitness_says_killed_teen_was_not_committing_ramming_attack>.
“I was very scared, and the scary part was that we were approaching the
entrance of the settlement.”
Both Firas and the witness are from Bani Naim village.
Muhammad Thalji Kayid Thalji al-Rajabi, 15
Muhammad was shot dead <http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773160>
after allegedly stabbing and lightly injuring an Israeli soldier near
the Tel Rumeida area of the Old City of Hebron in the West Bank on 16
September. Israeli forces reportedly prevented an ambulance from
reaching al-Rajabi after he was shot.
Amir Jamal al-Rajabi, 16
Amir was shot and fatally wounded along with Muhannad Jamal al-Rajabi,
21, while brandishing a knife at the Ibrahimi mosque checkpoint in the
West Bank city of Hebron on 19 September. The Palestine Red Crescent
Society told the Ma’an News Agency
<http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773206> that one of their
ambulances was “denied access” to the scene. An Israeli soldier was
reportedly lightly injured in the hand during the incident.
Issa Salem Mahmoud al-Tarayra, 15
Issa as slain by soldiers
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/four-palestinian-children-killed-five-days>
who claimed that the boy was carrying a knife and intended to stab them
at a checkpoint near the West Bank town of Bani Naim on 20 September. No
Israelis were injured during the incident.
Faris Ziyad Ata al-Bayid, 15
Close-up of adolescent boy's smiling face
Faris al-Bayed (DCIP
<http://www.dci-palestine.org/children_in_west_bank_face_deadliest_year_of_past_decade>)
Faris died
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-soldiers-not-danger-when-they-killed-woman-boy>
on 23 December after he was in a coma for 69 days as a result of being
shot during confrontations with Israeli forces at the entrance of
Jalazone refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Doctors told Defense for Children International - Palestine
<http://www.dci-palestine.org/children_in_west_bank_face_deadliest_year_of_past_decade>
that a rubber-coated metal bullet pierced the front of Faris’ head and
lodged in his brain, “causing severe damage and bleeding.”
Faris had attended a march commemorating the killing of Ahmad Sharaka
<https://electronicintifada.net/content/son-palestine-mourned-thousands/14912>,
14, also from Jalazone camp, shot by soldiers one year prior.
A military inquiry found that the soldiers were justified in opening
fire at Faris. The Israeli rights group B’Tselem stated
<http://www.btselem.org/firearms/20161116_whitewash_continues>, however,
that the shooting was “unlawful,” and that the boy did not pose a lethal
danger to soldiers when he was shot.
Khalid Bahr Ahmad Bahr, 15
Aerial view shows smiling adolescent boy lying next to baby sister
Khalid Bahr Ahmad Bahr (DCIP
<http://www.dci-palestine.org/mourning_a_dead_brother_without_his_body>)
Khalid was shot in the back from a distance of approximately 20 meters
while running away from soldiers, who accused the teen of throwing
stones at them
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-soldiers-not-danger-when-they-killed-woman-boy>,
at the entrance to a grove near Beit Ommar, a village in the southern
occupied West Bank, on 20 October.
A military inquiry into the incident determined
<http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.749139> that “the
soldiers’ lives were not in danger, and that they could have acted
differently in this case,” according to the Tel Aviv newspaper
/Haaretz/. An Israeli army spokesperson said that the incident is being
investigated by the Military Police Investigation Unit, and will then be
referred to the Military Advocate General.
The Israeli rights group B’Tselem stated
<http://www.btselem.org/firearms/20161116_whitewash_continues> that
Israeli forces “acted without any justification and did not face lethal
danger” when they shot the boy.
Israel withheld Khalid’s body for several weeks
<http://www.dci-palestine.org/mourning_a_dead_brother_without_his_body>,
preventing his family from burying him.
Muhammad Nabil Jawdat Salam, 14
Young man wears T-shirt and baseball cap
Ahmad Zeidani (DCIP
<http://www.dci-palestine.org/children_in_west_bank_face_deadliest_year_of_past_decade>)
Muhammad was shot dead <http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774136>
by a private security guard near the Shuafat checkpoint in the Jerusalem
area on 25 November. Israeli police claimed that the youth had attempted
to carry out a stabbing attack. No Israelis were injured during the
incident.
Ahmad Zeidani, 17
Israeli forces shot Ahmad when he was running away from them on 18
December, security camera footage released by B’Tselem shows
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/video-soldiers-shot-and-killed-teen-he-ran-away>.
Ahmad was among a group of youths attempting to repel the forces from
entering Beit Rima, a village near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
B’Tselem stated that the youths were “some 10 to 20 meters away from the
soldiers and officers, and they were running away from them” when they
were fired on. “There was no justification for shooting them and this
action was unlawful.”
/Names and ages reported here may vary from earlier reporting by The
Electronic Intifada. All names, ages and dates of deadly incidents
presented here have been verified with Defense for Children
International - Palestine, which obtains the child’s government-issued
ID card or birth certificate, or both in some cases, typically from the
child’s immediate family, to verify name and age./
--
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