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<h1 id="reader-title">These are the Palestinian children killed
by Israel in 2016</h1>
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<span class="field field-author"><a
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<p>For Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank,
2016 was the <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/children_in_west_bank_face_deadliest_year_of_past_decade">deadliest
year in the past decade</a>.</p>
<p>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 <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/month-pictures-december-2016/19106">105
Palestinians killed</a> by Israeli forces in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip during 2016.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Two Israeli civilians were killed in such incidents,
one a 13-year-old girl <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-vows-seize-more-land-after-girl-slain-settlement">stabbed
to death</a> in her bedroom in a West Bank settlement,
the sole Israeli child killed by a Palestinian during
the year.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>As Defense for Children International - Palestine
(DCIP) points out, “Accountability for shootings [of
Palestinian children] by Israeli forces is extremely
rare. Only <a
href="http://stories.dci-palestine.org/beitunia-boys/#2">one
incident</a> since 2014 has resulted in an
indictment.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>DCIP has summarized other ways Israel <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/year_in_review_2016">violated
Palestinian children’s rights</a> during the year.</p>
<p>These are the Palestinian children killed by Israeli
forces in 2016:</p>
<h2>Ahmad Younis Ahmad al-Kawazba, 17</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769685">reported</a>.</p>
<p>Ahmad was <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKQsaaJLO_M">buried
next to his friend and schoolmate</a> Mahmoud
al-Shalalda, who was <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/netanyahu-lashes-out-sweden-over-execution-accusations">shot
and killed by Israeli forces</a> in November 2015.</p>
<h2>Alaa al-Din Abd Muhammad al-Kawazba, 17</h2>
<p>Israeli forces <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769699">shot
and killed</a> 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.</p>
<h2>Khalil Muhammad Issa Wadi, 15</h2>
<p>Khalil was shot dead by Israeli forces after he
allegedly <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769699">attempted
to stab a soldier</a> 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 <a href="http://imemc.org/article/73848/">shot and
killed</a> by Israeli forces in the same location in
November 2015.</p>
<p>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 <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-executes-palestinian-hospital-room">execution
in a Hebron hospital room</a> of Abdallah Azzam
al-Shalalda and the <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-soldiers-kill-father-three-week-old-baby">killing
of a disabled father of a young baby</a> in December
2015.</p>
<h2>Adnan Ayid Hamid al-Mashni, 17</h2>
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<p>An <a
href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.698814">investigation</a>
by the Tel Aviv newspaper <em>Haaretz</em> 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.</p>
<p>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 <em>Haaretz</em>.</p>
<p>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,” <em>Haaretz</em> added. “The soldiers, seeing
the vehicle pulling out, opened fire at it, though they
had no idea who was inside it.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Ruqayya Abu Eid, 13</h2>
<p>Ruqayya was <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-settlement-guards-kill-young-palestinians">shot
dead</a> by a private security guard after she
allegedly attempted to stab him in the Anatot settlement
near Jerusalem on 23 January.</p>
<p>A Palestinian member of Israel’s parliament, the
Knesset, <a
href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.699046">condemned</a>
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.</p>
<p><em>Haaretz</em> <a
href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.700135">reported</a>
that Ruqayya died of a single bullet wound to the heart.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>Ruqayya was laid to rest in the village of al-Karmel
east of the West Bank town of Yatta, near Hebron.</p>
<h2>Hussein Abu Ghosh, 17</h2>
<p>Hussein was <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-settlement-guards-kill-young-palestinians">shot
dead</a> by an Israeli security guard at a supermarket
in Beit Horon settlement near the central West Bank city
of Ramallah on 25 January.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Israeli forces <a
href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/israeli-forces-destroy-home-palestinian-attacker-072516671.html">destroyed</a>
Hussein’s family home in Qalandiya refugee camp near
Ramallah in April.</p>
<p>Punitive home demolitions, along with other acts of
collective punishment, are considered a <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israels-high-court-champions-revenge-against-palestinian-families">war
crime</a> under the Fourth Geneva Convention.</p>
<h2>Ahmad Hassan Abd al-Latif Tubah, 17</h2>
<p>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 <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinian-authority-officer-turns-his-gun-israel">reported</a>
to have been injured.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<h2>Haitham Saada, 14</h2>
<p>Haitham <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israels-excessive-force-kills-two-more-children">died</a>
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.</p>
<p>“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 <em>Haaretz</em> <a
href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.702771">reported</a>
at the time. “Wajdi was arrested on the spot and is
still incarcerated in Ofer Camp, near Ramallah. He has
not been allowed visitors.”</p>
<h2>Omar Yousif Ismail Madi, 15</h2>
<p>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 <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770224">told
the Ma’an News Agency</a> 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.”</p>
<h2>Nihad Raed Muhammad Waked, 15, and Fuad Marwan Kamal
Waked, 15</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“Soldiers reported that one of the Palestinians was
armed with a makeshift weapon and another was carrying a
knife,” <em>Haaretz</em> <a
href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.703159">reported</a>.
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.</p>
<p>“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 <em>Haaretz</em>.
“These are just kids and to attribute an attempted
shooting to them sounds highly unlikely or believable.”</p>
<h2>Naim Ahmad Yousif Safi, 16</h2>
<p>Naim was <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/three-boys-among-6-palestinians-killed-during-bloody-weekend">shot
and killed</a> 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.</p>
<h2>Qusay Abu al-Rub, 16</h2>
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<p>Qusay Abu al-Rub (via <a
href="https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770383">Ma’an
News Agency</a>)</p>
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<p>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 <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-soldier-killed-friendly-fire">10th
youth</a> from the town to be slain since October
2015.</p>
<h2>Mahmoud Shaalan, 16</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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
<a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/year-atrocities-palestine">investigated
as a possible extrajudicial execution</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Witnesses <a
href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.708155">told</a>
<em>Haaretz</em> that soldiers prevented a Palestinian
ambulance from evacuating the boy, and that his naked
body lay on the road for more than two hours.</p>
<p>Fifteen rights and faith groups in the US have called
on the Obama administration to investigate the killing.
A top US diplomat <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/us-concerned-over-israeli-slaying-palestinian-american-teen">told
concerned groups</a> that the US embassy in Tel Aviv
asked Israel to investigate Mahmoud’s death.</p>
<h2>Labib Khaldoun Anwar Abd al-Azzam, 17 and Muhammad
Hashim Ali Zaghlawan, 17</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Abd al-Rahman Radad, 17</h2>
<p>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. <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/video-let-him-die-say-israelis-palestinian-boy-lays-bleeding">Graphic
video</a> 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.</p>
<h2>Ahmad Yousif Ismail Amer, 16</h2>
<p>Ahmad was <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/video-let-him-die-say-israelis-palestinian-boy-lays-bleeding">shot
dead</a> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Ahmad, from the nearby village of Masha, reportedly
left a <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/QudsN/photos/a.119620728114837.22171.119605611449682/1108461539230746/?type=1&theater">note</a>
bidding farewell to his parents, asking them for their
forgiveness.</p>
<h2>Yasin Abu Khusa, 9, and Isra Abu Khusa, 6</h2>
<p>Yasin and Isra, brother and sister, were <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-robs-gaza-family-two-children-one-night/16061">killed
during an Israeli air strike</a> on their neighborhood
in northern Gaza on 12 March.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Yusif Walid Mustafa al-Tarayra, 17</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Abdallah al-Ajluni, 16</h2>
<p>Abdallah, from the West Bank city of Hebron, was <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israels-well-documented-crimes-met-silence">shot
dead</a> 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.</p>
<h2>Ibrahim Salih Hassan Taha, 16</h2>
<p>Ibrahim was <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/brother-and-sister-slain-checkpoint-were-executed-palestinians-say">killed
along with his pregnant adult sister</a>, 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.</p>
<p>Israeli police claimed the siblings were carrying
knives and attempted to attack soldiers. No Israelis
were injured during the incident.</p>
<p>Israel’s justice ministry <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinian-woman-shot-checkpoint">declined
to open an investigation</a> after an initial probe
found that the brother and sister were shot by civilian
security guards and not by police.</p>
<h2>Mahmoud Badran, 15</h2>
<p>Mahmoud, from the central West Bank village of Beit Ur
al-Tahta, was killed when Israeli forces <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/down-syndrome-man-child-killed-israeli-soldiers">opened
fire on a car of young Palestinians</a> 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 <a
href="http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20160622_killing_of_mahmoud_badran">crashed
into a wall</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that soldiers
prevented paramedics from providing first aid to the
injured Palestinians for more than 90 minutes.</p>
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pool" title="" moz-reader-center="true"><figcaption
class="group-caption field-group-html-element">
<p>Mahmoud Badran, at right, during the pool party he
attended shortly before he was killed. (<a
href="http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20160622_killing_of_mahmoud_badran">B’Tselem</a>)</p>
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<p>One of the survivors <a
href="http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20160622_killing_of_mahmoud_badran">told
B’Tselem</a> that the shooting came from a civilian
car.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<h2>Muhammad Nasir Mahmoud Khalil al-Tarayra, 16</h2>
<p>Muhammad was shot dead after after <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-vows-seize-more-land-after-girl-slain-settlement">stabbing</a>
a 13-year-old girl, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, in her home in
the Kiryat Arba settlement near Hebron on 30 June.</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/world/middleeast/west-bank-kiryat-arba.html"><em>The
New York Times</em> reported</a> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Ariel was rushed to a hospital, where she died a short
time later. The US State Department <a
href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.728224">confirmed</a>
the girl held American citizenship. Ariel was the only
Israeli child killed by Palestinians during 2016.</p>
<p>Israeli forces demolished the home belonging to
Muhammad’s family <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/month-pictures-august-2016/17846">in
August</a>.</p>
<h2>Muhyee al-Din Muhammad Sudqi Sadiq Tibakhi, 10</h2>
<figure id="file-39926" class="file file-image
file-image-jpeg media-element file-figure figure__right"><source
media="(min-width: 72rem)"><img class="media-element
file-figure"
src="cid:part53.C5C3E357.97A60F3C@freedomarchives.org"
alt="" title=""><figcaption class="group-caption
field-group-html-element">
<p>Muhyee Sidqi al-Tibakhi</p>
</figcaption></figure>
<p>Muhyee died after he was <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinians-buried-after-jerusalem-killings">shot
in the chest and head</a> during confrontations that
broke out when Israeli forces raided al-Ram town near
Jerusalem on 19 July.</p>
<p>Defense for Children International - Palestine <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/palestinian_10_year_old_boy_killed_near_east_jerusalem">stated</a>
that the “boy died from a sponge-tipped bullet to the
chest fired by Israeli forces.”</p>
<p>Muhyee is the second Palestinian child to be killed by
a sponge-tipped bullet, according to the group. <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/anger-jerusalem-after-israel-kills-another-palestinian-teen/13848">Muhammad
Sinokrot</a>, 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.</p>
<h2>Abd al-Rahman Ahmad al-Dabbagh, 15</h2>
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media="(min-width: 72rem)"><img class="media-element
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src="cid:part57.F8F960D2.45084829@freedomarchives.org"
alt="" title=""><figcaption class="group-caption
field-group-html-element">
<p>Abd al-Rahman Ahmad al-Dabbagh (<a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_kill_child_with_flare_in_gaza">DCIP</a>)</p>
</figcaption></figure>
<p>Abd al-Rahman was <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/year-atrocities-palestine">killed
instantly</a> 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.</p>
<p>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 <a
href="http://www.alhaq.org/documentation/weekly-focuses/1076-violence-resumes-in-the-opt-israel-kills-six-palestinians-within-ten-days">stated</a>.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>Defense for Children International - Palestine <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_kill_child_with_flare_in_gaza">published
a video still</a> showing Abd al-Rahman lying on the
ground, flames and smoke coming from his head.</p>
<p>“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 <a
href="http://www.chemringordnance.com/products/products-40-mm.aspx">Chemring
Ordnance</a> and <a
href="http://www.nationaldefensecorp.com/m583a1-illumination.html">AMTEC
Corporation</a>, both based in the US, DCIP added.</p>
<h2>Firas al-Khadour, 17</h2>
<p>A witness to the slaying of Firas <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinian-officer-killed-after-shooting-israeli-soldiers">denied</a>
Israel’s claim that the teen was attempting to attack
soldiers with his car when he was killed on 16
September.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>After the car was stopped, soldiers opened fire on it
from multiple directions, killing Firas and critically
wounding the witness.</p>
<p>“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, <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/eyewitness_says_killed_teen_was_not_committing_ramming_attack">told
Defense for Children International - Palestine</a>. “I
was very scared, and the scary part was that we were
approaching the entrance of the settlement.”</p>
<p>Both Firas and the witness are from Bani Naim village.</p>
<h2>Muhammad Thalji Kayid Thalji al-Rajabi, 15</h2>
<p>Muhammad was <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773160">shot
dead</a> 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.</p>
<h2>Amir Jamal al-Rajabi, 16</h2>
<p>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 <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773206">told
the Ma’an News Agency</a> that one of their ambulances
was “denied access” to the scene. An Israeli soldier was
reportedly lightly injured in the hand during the
incident.</p>
<h2>Issa Salem Mahmoud al-Tarayra, 15</h2>
<p>Issa as <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/four-palestinian-children-killed-five-days">slain
by soldiers</a> 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.</p>
<h2>Faris Ziyad Ata al-Bayid, 15</h2>
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file-image-png media-element file-figure figure__right"><source
media="(min-width: 72rem)"><img class="media-element
file-figure"
src="cid:part69.5832CEB0.B7C8B8BF@freedomarchives.org"
alt="Close-up of adolescent boy's smiling face"
title="" moz-reader-center="true"><figcaption
class="group-caption field-group-html-element">
<p>Faris al-Bayed (<a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/children_in_west_bank_face_deadliest_year_of_past_decade">DCIP</a>)</p>
</figcaption></figure>
<p>Faris <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-soldiers-not-danger-when-they-killed-woman-boy">died</a>
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.</p>
<p>Doctors <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/children_in_west_bank_face_deadliest_year_of_past_decade">told
Defense for Children International - Palestine</a>
that a rubber-coated metal bullet pierced the front of
Faris’ head and lodged in his brain, “causing severe
damage and bleeding.”</p>
<p>Faris had attended a march commemorating the killing of
<a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/son-palestine-mourned-thousands/14912">Ahmad
Sharaka</a>, 14, also from Jalazone camp, shot by
soldiers one year prior.</p>
<p>A military inquiry found that the soldiers were
justified in opening fire at Faris. The Israeli rights
group B’Tselem <a
href="http://www.btselem.org/firearms/20161116_whitewash_continues">stated</a>,
however, that the shooting was “unlawful,” and that the
boy did not pose a lethal danger to soldiers when he was
shot.</p>
<h2>Khalid Bahr Ahmad Bahr, 15</h2>
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file-image-jpeg media-element file-figure figure__right"><source
media="(min-width: 72rem)"><img class="media-element
file-figure"
src="cid:part75.1C087393.420E492F@freedomarchives.org"
alt="Aerial view shows smiling adolescent boy lying
next to baby sister" title="" moz-reader-center="true"><figcaption
class="group-caption field-group-html-element">
<p>Khalid Bahr Ahmad Bahr (<a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/mourning_a_dead_brother_without_his_body">DCIP</a>)</p>
</figcaption></figure>
<p>Khalid was shot in the back from a distance of
approximately 20 meters while running away from
soldiers, who <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-soldiers-not-danger-when-they-killed-woman-boy">accused
the teen of throwing stones at them</a>, at the
entrance to a grove near Beit Ommar, a village in the
southern occupied West Bank, on 20 October.</p>
<p>A military inquiry into the incident <a
href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.749139">determined</a>
that “the soldiers’ lives were not in danger, and that
they could have acted differently in this case,”
according to the Tel Aviv newspaper <em>Haaretz</em>.
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.</p>
<p>The Israeli rights group B’Tselem <a
href="http://www.btselem.org/firearms/20161116_whitewash_continues">stated</a>
that Israeli forces “acted without any justification and
did not face lethal danger” when they shot the boy.</p>
<p>Israel <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/mourning_a_dead_brother_without_his_body">withheld
Khalid’s body for several weeks</a>, preventing his
family from burying him.</p>
<h2>Muhammad Nabil Jawdat Salam, 14</h2>
<figure id="file-44111" class="file file-image
file-image-png media-element file-figure figure__right"><source
media="(min-width: 72rem)"><img class="media-element
file-figure"
src="cid:part81.6FE509E4.16B27EB9@freedomarchives.org"
alt="Young man wears T-shirt and baseball cap"
title="" moz-reader-center="true"><figcaption
class="group-caption field-group-html-element">
<p>Ahmad Zeidani (<a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/children_in_west_bank_face_deadliest_year_of_past_decade">DCIP</a>)</p>
</figcaption></figure>
<p>Muhammad was <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774136">shot
dead</a> 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.</p>
<h2>Ahmad Zeidani, 17</h2>
<p>Israeli forces shot Ahmad when he was running away from
them on 18 December, <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/video-soldiers-shot-and-killed-teen-he-ran-away">security
camera footage released by B’Tselem shows</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p><em>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.</em></p>
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