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<h1 id="reader-title">These are the Palestinian children Israel
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<span class="field field-author"><a
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<p>These are the Palestinian children killed by Israel
in 2017.</p>
<p>Fourteen Palestinian boys and girls under the age of
18 were shot dead by Israeli occupation forces in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip during the year.</p>
<p>There were 21 fewer children killed than in 2016,
which was the <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/these-are-palestinian-children-killed-israel-2016">deadliest
year for Palestinian children in the occupied West
Bank in the past decade</a>.</p>
<p>In addition to those 14 shot and killed during 2017,
a child <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_drone_strike_survivor_in_gaza_dies_from_injuries_at_age_9">died
of wounds sustained in an Israeli drone strike</a>
years earlier.</p>
<p>Another was <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/palestinian_child_killed_by_uxo_in_jordan_valley">killed
by Israeli ordnance</a> while grazing livestock. A
baby living in temporary shelter, his family homeless
as a result of Israeli bombing, <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/two_and_a_half_years_on_the_gaza_war_claims_another_child_victim">died
of cold exposure</a>.</p>
<p>Palestinian children also died because they were <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/my-child-died-my-eyes/21236">unable
to secure permits</a> to leave via the
Israeli-controlled Erez checkpoint for medical
treatment unavailable in the besieged Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>Emergency room doctors were unable to resuscitate a
seriously ill 9-year-old girl in the West Bank after <a
href="http://www.alhaq.org/documentation/weekly-focuses/1167-palestinian-children-relentlessly-targeted-by-israels-occupation">Israeli
soldiers denied her family passage</a> at a
checkpoint; a trip that normally would take 15 minutes
took her family 90 minutes after they were forced to
detour and go through a different checkpoint.</p>
<p>No Israeli children were killed by Palestinians
during the year. An Israeli woman wounded during a bus
stop bombing in 2011, when she was 14, and who had
never regained consciousness, <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.824305">died
of her injures</a> in 2017.</p>
<h2>Qusay al-Amour, 17</h2>
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<p>Qusay al-Amour was shot by soldiers during
confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinian
youths in the town of Tuqu, near the West Bank city of
Bethlehem, on 16 January.</p>
<p>An eyewitness <a
href="http://www.alhaq.org/documentation/weekly-focuses/1098-qusay-al-amour-17-killed-by-iof">told
the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq</a> that Qusay,
who was wearing a mask, was sitting on the ground.
When he stood up, he was shot.</p>
<p>The moments after his shooting were <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvztlxtsfXQ">recorded
on video</a> by journalist Hisham Abu Shakra.</p>
<p>The video shows soldiers firing at a Palestinian who
had attempted to come to the aid of Qusay, lying
motionless on the ground, before several soldiers run
towards and grab the injured youth.</p>
<p>“One of the soldiers placed his knee on Qusay’s
throat, while trying to handcuff him but failed to
turn Qusay’s left hand behind his body,” according to
Al-Haq.</p>
<p>The soldiers then took Qusay by his hands and feet,
while his unsupported head repeatedly hit the ground
as they carried him to an army jeep at a distance of
dozens of meters away from where he was shot.</p>
<p>A doctor at Beit Jala hospital announced that Qusay
was killed after being shot by three bullets in the
thigh, stomach and chest.</p>
<p>“Qusay did not pose an imminent threat to the lives
of soldiers and as such was unlawfully killed,” Al-Haq
stated.</p>
<h2>Murad Yousif Abu Ghazi, 17</h2>
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<p>Murad Yousif Abu Ghazi was shot by Israeli forces
during confrontations in <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/arroub-refugee-camp">Arroub
refugee camp</a>, in the southern West Bank, on 17
March.</p>
<p>Israeli soldiers fired live bullets at a group of
teenagers who they alleged had thrown molotov
cocktails at the military tower outside the camp.</p>
<p>“According to a preliminary inspection by the
coroner, carried out under the observation of the
public prosecutor, Murad was struck by a live bullet
that entered the bottom left side of his shoulder,” <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_killed_two_palestinian_teens_in_last_week">according
to</a> Defense for Children International-Palestine.</p>
<p>‘The bullet directly hit his heart before exiting out
of his chest. This resulted in Murad’s death, likely
within minutes of the injury, according to the
coroner.”</p>
<p>Another youth, Saif Awlad Issa, 16, was injured by a
live bullet to his chest but survived.</p>
<p>“Military fixtures like checkpoints and watchtowers
in the West Bank and the heavily surveilled ‘buffer
zone’ along the border of Gaza are sites of frequent
clashes, representing significant risks of death,
injury, and arrest to children who live or pass near
them frequently,” Defense for Children
International-Palestine stated after Murad’s slaying.</p>
<p>Murad had lost his close friend and classmate, <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770224">Omar
Madi Jawabreh</a>, the year before when the
15-year-old was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers.</p>
<p>“Omar’s martyrdom affected Murad deeply, it changed
him,” Murad’s mother, Zeina, <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinian-teen-sacrificed-his-life-defend-camp/20181">told
The Electronic Intifada</a>. “He visited Omar’s
grave every day and wore his necklace. He kept Omar’s
picture in his pocket and always visited his mother
and was like a son to her.”</p>
<p>Murad’s family originally hails from Beit Jibrin, a
Palestinian town ethnically cleansed by Zionist
militias in 1948, located in what is today called
Israel.</p>
<p>Arroub is one of the most frequently raided camps in
the West Bank, <a
href="https://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/west-bank/arroub-camp">according
to</a> UNRWA, the United Nations agency for
Palestine refugees.</p>
<p>The whole camp participated in Murad’s funeral, his
friend Ahmad told The Electronic Intifada.</p>
<p>“Men, women and children. Everyone here loved Murad.
My head will always be held high because he was my
friend.”</p>
<h2>Yousif Shaaban Abu Athra, 15</h2>
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<p>Yousif Abu Athra was killed by Israeli tank shelling
when he and two adult friends approached the fence
along Gaza’s boundary with Israel late at night on 21
March.</p>
<p>An Israeli army spokesperson <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.778766">told
media</a> that the three were behaving in a
suspicious manner, as though they were attempting to
plant an explosive device, without giving further
details.</p>
<p>The teen’s father <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_killed_two_palestinian_teens_in_last_week">told
Defense for Children International-Palestine</a>
that “his son’s body was riddled with shrapnel,
including injuries to his head.”</p>
<p>The Palestine Red Crescent Society told the rights
group that Yousif was already dead by the time
emergency medics reached him.</p>
<p>Muhammad Waheed Atallah al-Ekir, 25, was <a
href="http://mezan.org/en/post/21881/Israeli+Forces+Kill+a+Child+and+Injure+Another">seriously
injured</a> with shrapnel wounds in his chest and
abdomen during the same incident.</p>
<p>The military <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/life-lived-edge-along-gazas-boundary/18516">frequently
fires</a> on Palestinians who enter the so-called <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/gaza-buffer-zone">buffer zone</a>
along Gaza’s boundary with Israel.</p>
<p>The no-go area is understood to extend some 300
meters into Gaza’s eastern and northern territory, but
Palestinian human rights groups say that the zones can
go as deep as 1,500 meters.</p>
<h2>Muhammad Khatab, 17 and Jassim Nakhla, 16</h2>
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<p>Muhmmad Khattab was <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_killed_a_child_and_injured_three_near_settlement">killed</a>
when Israeli forces fired on the car he was driving
near the <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/beit-el">Beit
El settlement</a> north of the West Bank city of
Ramallah on 23 March.</p>
<p>Three other children were wounded and left comatose
during the incident. One of them, Jassim Nakhla, died
of his wounds on 10 April, just two days after his
16th birthday, <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/child_injured_by_israeli_soldiers_dies_from_gunshot_wounds">according
to</a> Defense for Children International-Palestine.</p>
<p>An Israeli army spokesperson <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.779235">told
media</a> that the youths had thrown firebombs
towards a food stand near the settlement adjacent to <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/jalazone-refugee-camp">Jalazone
refugee camp</a>, where the boys were from.</p>
<p>A witness told the rights group that soldiers shot at
Muhammad when he got out of his stalled car in order
to push it.</p>
<p>When the soldiers began shooting, “Muhammad jumped
back into the car to try to escape, but the car did
not start, according to DCIP’s source. The witness
said Israeli soldiers then approached the car and
opened fire on all four children … while inside the
car.”</p>
<p>Muhammad, shot twice in the torso, was declared dead
upon arrival to a hospital.</p>
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<p>The director of the emergency department at the
Palestine Medical Complex told Defense for Children
International-Palestine that Jassim “sustained live
ammunition injuries to his head, chest, right thigh
and right foot.”</p>
<p>The shooting of the teens pierced the bubble in
nearby Ramallah, the seat of the Western-backed
Palestinian Authority, <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/jalal-abukhater/ramallah-bubble-pierced-israeli-bullets">according
to</a> The Electronic Intifada contributor Jalal
Abukhater.</p>
<p>“Angry protesters <a
href="https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=776090">took
to the streets of Ramallah</a> after Muhammad’s
death, chanting and screaming, expecting someone to
listen,” he wrote at the time.</p>
<p>“Various groups of youths went around the city and
asked the bustling restaurants and cafes of Ramallah
to close in mourning.”</p>
<p>Defense for Children International-Palestine called
for an investigation into the fatal shooting.</p>
<p>But as Abukhater stated, the suffering of grieving
families “is compounded by the knowledge that justice
will never be served as long as the Israeli occupation
continues to exist.”</p>
<p>Defense for Children International-Palestine told The
Electronic Intifada that one of the two surviving boys
is now paralyzed in his lower body and uses a
wheelchair. He is receiving therapy at a hospital in
Israel and learning how to live with his injuries.</p>
<p>The other child cannot balance properly while
standing and is unable to use his left hand because of
nerve damage due to his injuries. He goes to therapy
sessions at a rehabilitation center in Ramallah.</p>
<h2>Ahmad Ghazal, 17</h2>
<p>The killing of Ahmad Ghazal on 1 April by Israeli
Border Police may amount to an extrajudicial killing,
<a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/early_reports_suggest_israeli_forces_unlawfully_killed_teen">according
to</a> Defense for Children International-Palestine.</p>
<p>Ahmad, from the northern West Bank, had stabbed and
wounded two Jewish men in Jerusalem’s Old City,
causing them minor injuries. After fleeing into a
nearby building, he was pursued by Israeli forces who
opened fire on the teen.</p>
<p><a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/848156788365176834">Video
from the scene</a> shows Border Police forces
running down an alley in the Old City, past a man with
blood on the back of his shirt, before more than a
dozen gunshots are heard.</p>
<p><a
href="https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/848188769303920640">Another
video</a> appears to show several bullet holes in
the walls where Ahmad was killed.</p>
<p>“Israeli forces prevented ambulances and medical
personnel from entering the building for several
hours, the witness said,” Defense for Children
International-Palestine added. “After this period, the
witness saw Border Police drag the teen’s body out of
the building and place it in a black bag.”</p>
<p>Ahmad had posted a photo of himself standing in front
of Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock shortly before he was
killed:</p>
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<p dir="rtl" lang="ar">الشهيد أحمد غزال يأخذ صورة
"سيلفي"مع قبة الصخرة قبل تنفيذه عملية الطعن في
شارع الواد بالبلدة القديمة، عصر اليوم. <a
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— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) <a
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<h2>Fatima Hjeiji, 16</h2>
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<p>Fatima Hjeiji, from the central West Bank town of
Qarawat Bani Zeid, was <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/palestinian_girl_s_death_warrants_impartial_investigation">shot
by Israeli Border Police</a> near the Damascus Gate
to the Old City of Jerusalem on 7 May.</p>
<p>Israeli police claimed the girl was attempting an
attack on Border Police when she was shot.</p>
<p>Rights groups state that Fatima did not pose a danger
warranting the use of lethal force against her.</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.btselem.org/firearms/20170510_killing_of_fatimah_hjeiji">According
to the Israeli rights group B’Tselem</a>, Fatima
approached a metal police barricade and brandished a
knife at a group of Israeli police and paramilitary
Border Police on the other side of the barricade.</p>
<p>“The officers then fatally shot her,” B’Tselem
stated.</p>
<p>A witness told Defense for Children
International-Palestine that the Israeli forces
shouted “Drop the knife!” at her in Hebrew twice.</p>
<p>“The witness reported that the teenage girl then
lifted the knife in the air and froze. Seconds later,
she was gunned down, according to DCIP’s source.”</p>
<p>The rights group stated that the girl was killed in
“circumstances warranting an impartial investigation.”</p>
<h2>Fatima Taqatqa, 15</h2>
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<p>Fatima Taqatqa, from the town of Beit Fajjar near the
West Bank city of Bethlehem, was shot by Israeli
forces after she drove a car into a group of soldiers
at the <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/gush-etzion-junction">Gush
Etzion</a> junction near the settlement bloc of the
same name on 15 March.</p>
<p>Israel alleges that Taqatqa was waging a car ramming
attack when she was shot. No Israelis were injured in
the incident.</p>
<p>Fatima <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=777188">succumbed
to her wounds</a> more than two months later.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XROMJxkWCNQ">Security
camera footage</a> shows Taqatqa’s car driving at a
high speed over a median and crashing into a
barricade, behind which the soldiers were standing.</p>
<p>More than a dozen Palestinians and three Israelis
have been killed at the Gush Etzion junction since
October 2015, according to the Ma’an News Agency.</p>
<h2>Raed Ahmad Radayda, 15</h2>
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<p>Raed Ahmad Radayda died after Israeli soldiers shot
him when he allegedly attempted to stab one of them at
the Container checkpoint near the teen’s hometown of
al-Ubeidiya in the Bethlehem area of the West Bank on
22 May.</p>
<p>Raed was left bleeding for approximately 40 minutes,
media reported, as soldiers prevented Palestinian
medics from accessing the boy.</p>
<p>Raed’s father told Defense for Children
International-Palestine that “he was not notified that
his son had been killed until he called Palestinian
police nearly seven hours after the 15-year-old’s
death.”</p>
<p>The boy’s body was withheld by Israel until 26 May.
An autopsy was performed the following day.</p>
<p>“Although the full autopsy has yet to be released to
DCIP, the family reported apparent wounds to Raed’s
head, chest and feet,” the group <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_shoot_dead_2nd_palestinian_child_in_month">stated</a>
soon after Raed’s death.</p>
<p>An Israeli police spokesperson <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=777229">told
media</a> that Raed had approached the soldiers
while holding a knife, and “after a short dispute, an
Israeli soldier was able to open fire at the suspect
who was neutralized and the knife in his possession
was seized.”</p>
<p>No Israeli forces were injured.</p>
<h2>Nouf Infayat, 14</h2>
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<p>Nouf Infayat was shot and critically wounded after
she allegedly stabbed and lightly injured an Israeli
soldier outside the Mevo Dotan settlement in the
northern West Bank on 1 June. She died of her injuries
the following day.</p>
<p><a
href="https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/870268026326622208?lang=en">Video
from the scene</a> shows Nouf lying on the ground
and moaning in pain while Israelis, at least one of
them armed, stand around her, cursing her and calling
for her death.</p>
<p>Defense for Children International-Palestine <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/palestinian_girl_dies_after_being_shot_and_left_to_bleed">stated</a>
that Nouf, from the village of Yabad, was shot six
times in the neck, hand and thigh.</p>
<p>“Local news outlets reported that Nouf was left
bleeding on the pavement for nearly an hour before an
ambulance arrived,” the group added.</p>
<p>“We are deeply concerned by video footage from this
incident that suggests a significant delay in urgent
medical care for the injured child,” Ayed Abu Eqtaish,
a director at Defense for Children
International-Palestine, stated.</p>
<p>Israeli forces have failed to provide medical
treatment or prevented Palestinian medics from
accessing seriously wounded persons in many such cases
in which soldiers have shot alleged or actual
attackers.</p>
<p>Amnesty International <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/year-atrocities-palestine">has
stated</a> that failure to provide first aid to the
wounded “violates the prohibition on torture and other
cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.”</p>
<h2>Aws Muhammad Yousif Salameh, 16</h2>
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<p>Aws Salameh (via <a
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<p>Aws Salameh was shot in the stomach when Israeli
soldiers <a
href="https://www.btselem.org/20170712_two_killed_by_gunfire_in_jenin_rc">ambushed
stone-throwing youths</a> during a raid on <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/jenin-refugee-camp">Jenin
refugee camp</a> in the early hours of 12 July. An
adult resident of the camp, Saed Salah, 21, was also
killed.</p>
<p>Saed and a group of 40 to 50 youths were chasing two
military jeeps when the vehicles suddenly braked.</p>
<p>Saed, who was riding a motorcycle, stopped too.</p>
<p>“I think the sudden braking caught Saed by surprise …
and he tried to stop. At that moment, I saw one of the
soldiers shoot him,” a 19-year-old youth told
B’Tselem.</p>
<p>“Then the soldiers fired in the direction of Aws
Salameh, who was up front among the guys chasing the
jeeps. I saw him fall over,” the witness added.</p>
<p>Another witness told B’Tselem that the army jeeps
braked near a home where soldiers had occupied the
rooftop. The 16-year-old witness said that he saw
soldiers on the rooftop fire at Saed and Aws.</p>
<p>B’Tselem stated that “After [Saed] Salah was shot,
soldiers stood around him for at least 10 minutes
without giving him medical aid.”</p>
<p>The rights group said that Saed and Aws “did not pose
a threat to the soldiers’ lives” when lethal force was
used against them.</p>
<p>It is hardly the first time that deadly fire was used
during a raid without justification.</p>
<p>“The fact that no one was held accountable in
previous instances, including the commanders who
ordered the ambush, is what allows the implementation
of this unlawful policy to continue,” according to
B’Tselem.</p>
<p>Aws’ father <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_kill_palestinian_teen_during_night_raid">told
Defense for Children International-Palestine</a>
that his son was hit by an expanding “dum-dum” bullet
that “ripped through his liver, lungs and spleen.”</p>
<p>The rights group stated that “the use of expanding
and exploding bullets is a <a
href="https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v2_rul_rule77">violation</a>
of international humanitarian law and amounts to a war
crime under the Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court.”</p>
<h2>Muhammad Khalaf Mahmoud Khalaf Lafi, 17</h2>
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<p>Muhammad Khalaf Mahmoud Khalaf Lafi (via <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_kill_17_year_old_amid_clashes_over_access_to_holy_site">DCIP</a>)</p>
</figcaption></figure>
<p>Muhammad Lafi was killed by a gunshot wound to the
chest during confrontations between Palestinian
protesters and Israeli soldiers near a military base
in the West Bank town of Abu Dis, near Jerusalem, on
21 July.</p>
<p>Hours before Muhammad was shot, Muhammad Mahmoud
Sharaf was killed during confrontations in the Ras
al-Amoud neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Muhammad
Sharaf died just a week after his 18th birthday, <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_kill_17_year_old_amid_clashes_over_access_to_holy_site">according
to</a> Defense for Children International-Palestine.</p>
<p>A 20-year-old youth, Muhammad Abu Ghanam, was also <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/six-killed-netanyahu-throws-match-jerusalem-powder-keg">fatally
wounded</a> by Israeli forces in Jerusalem that same
day.</p>
<p>The three youths were killed as thousands of
Palestinians protested across the West Bank and Gaza
Strip over new Israeli measures infringing on
Palestinian worship at al-Aqsa mosque in East
Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Three Israelis were fatally stabbed by a Palestinian
in a West Bank settlement later that same night.</p>
<h2>Abd al-Rahman Abu Hamisa, 16</h2>
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<p>Abd al-Rahman Abu Hamisa (via <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_soldiers_shot_dead_16_year_old_palestinian_near_gaza_border">DCIP</a>)</p>
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<p>Abd al-Rahman Abu Hamisa became the sixth Palestinian
to be killed during <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/video-israel-attacks-jerusalem-worshippers">protests
over Israel’s closure of the al-Aqsa mosque</a> on
28 July.</p>
<p>The teen was shot by a soldier in the central Gaza
Strip as youth confronted occupation forces along the
boundary with Israel.</p>
<p>Defense for Children International-Palestine <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_soldiers_shot_dead_16_year_old_palestinian_near_gaza_border">stated</a>
that Abu Hamisa was tens of meters away from Israeli
forces stationed on the Israeli side of the boundary
fence when he was shot in the left shoulder.</p>
<p>Soldiers fired live ammunition at several youths who
attempted to reach the teen after he was shot.</p>
<p>One of those wounded, Muamin Khalidi, 23, said that
he was among those who had come to Abd al-Rahman’s
aid.</p>
<p>“I grabbed Abd al-Rahman by the legs and started
dragging him away when the soldiers fired a bullet
that hit me in the right thigh,” he told B’Tselem.</p>
<p>“I let go of his legs, staggered a few meters and
fell over,” he added.</p>
<p>Abd al-Rahman and another protester who had been
shot, Ismail Jaber, were lying next to Muamin.</p>
<p>“Ismail tried to get up and then the soldiers shot
another bullet at him, and he fell back down,” Muamin
told B’Tselem.</p>
<p>An Israeli army spokesperson <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=778412">claimed</a>
that its forces had fired at Palestinians who were
burning tires, throwing stones towards soldiers and
damaging the boundary fence.</p>
<p>Israeli forces are typically separated from
Palestinians inside Gaza by fences and a large
distance and are often in fortified positions, making
it unlikely that protesting Palestinians could present
a credible danger.</p>
<p>B’Tselem <a
href="https://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/20170728_killing_of_abd_a_rahman_abu_hamisah">stated</a>
that in October 2015, Abd al-Rahman was arrested along
with five other youths when he crossed into Israel
after a demonstration.</p>
<p>“At the time of the arrest and over the following
three days, soldiers abused the six detainees, holding
them shackled outside for the duration, beating them
repeatedly, depriving them of sleep and even burning
the hands and feet of one of the minors with
cigarettes,” according to B’Tselem.</p>
<p>Abd al-Rahman <a
href="https://www.btselem.org/beating_and_abuse/20160508_soldiers_abuse_gazan_detainees">testified
to B’Tselem</a> that during his three days of
detention at a military base, “We were so battered
that our entire bodies ached.”</p>
<p>The boy was found guilty of entering Israel illegally
and sentenced to four months in prison. His family
were not allowed to visit him during his imprisonment.</p>
<p>Abd al-Rahman’s mother told B’Tselem that “The time
in Israeli prison affected him very badly.” He
finished the ninth grade of school but didn’t want to
continue to the 10th grade.</p>
<p>“He was on edge all the time, would start yelling
sometimes, and didn’t want to talk to anyone,” his
mother said.</p>
<p>B’Tselem stated that the slaying of Abd al-Rahman and
several other protesters along the Gaza boundary since
October 2015 “makes it clear that the Israeli military
has adopted an unlawful policy of shooting at
non-dangerous Palestinian demonstrators.”</p>
<p>The group added: “Far from deny[ing] it, the military
describes this reality in media announcements as
‘firing at key inciters’ and taking action ‘to prevent
damage to the fence.’”</p>
<h2>Qutaiba Ziad Zahran, 16</h2>
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<p>Qutaiba Ziad Zahran (via <a
href="http://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/topics/right-to-life-and-body-integrity/1137-the-aftermath-of-an-attack-israels-arbitrary-and-collective-punishment-measures">Al-Haq</a>)</p>
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<p>Qutaiba Ziad Zahran was shot after carrying out a
stabbing attack on an Israeli soldier at the Zaatara
military checkpoint in the northern West Bank on 19
August.</p>
<p>Soldiers continued to shoot at the boy after he fell
to the ground.</p>
<p>An eyewitness <a
href="http://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/topics/right-to-life-and-body-integrity/1137-the-aftermath-of-an-attack-israels-arbitrary-and-collective-punishment-measures">told</a>
the Palestinian rights group Al-Haq that “I heard at
least five bullet sounds when [Qutaiba] was already
down.”</p>
<p>The teen died immediately, according to Al-Haq.</p>
<p>Qutaiba’s father, who said that the boy was the
youngest of eight children, learned of his son’s
slaying from Facebook and local media.</p>
<p>“I received no official communication from any entity
of the Palestinian Authority notifying me of my son’s
killing,” Qutaiba’s father testified to Al-Haq. “The
[Israeli occupation forces] withheld my son’s body; I
did not know where it was being kept or when it would
be handed over to me for burial in our hometown of
Allar.”</p>
<p>The day after Qutaiba was killed, dozens of Israeli
soldiers raided his family’s home. They searched the
house and interrogated Qutaiba’s parents and siblings.
Qutaiba’s 30-year-old brother Tareq was arrested.</p>
<p>The grieving family were not be able to bury Qutaiba
until <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=779030">9
September</a>.</p>
<p>Al-Haq stated that “The aftermath of Qutaiba’s
killing, including the raiding of the family home,
interrogation of family members, and the holding of
Qutaiba’s body, all fall within Israel’s broad
policies and practices of harassment and collective
punishment.”</p>
<p><em>An earlier version of this story included mention
of a baby who died months after suffering excessive
tear gas inhalation, as the Palestinian Authority
health ministry announced at the time. The child’s
death has been omitted from this story after Defense
for Children International-Palestine informed The
Electronic Intifada that the group had thoroughly
investigated the baby’s case and had found that tear
gas inhalation was not a primary factor in his
death.</em></p>
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