Israel has already killed three Palestinian children in 2018 | The Electronic Intifada
The second week of 2018 is not yet over and already Israeli occupation forces have killed three Palestinian children.
Fourteen Palestinian boys and girls under the age of 18 were killed by soldiers and police in all of 2017.
Two children were shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday. A third child was seriously injured.
Amir Abd al-Hamid Abu Musaad, 15, died immediately after being hit in
the chest with a live bullet during a protest along the Gaza-Israel
boundary, Defense for Children International-Palestine stated.
“An eyewitness said that soldiers fired live ammunition from across
the Israeli border fence at a group of around 20 protestors throwing
stones toward the fence,” the rights group stated.
Mahmoud Tawfiq al-Masri, 17, was shot in the stomach during the same
protest and is in critical condition, Defense for Children
International-Palestine stated on Friday. Two teenagers over the age of
18 were also shot and wounded.
carry the body of Amir Abd al-Hamid Abu Musaad during the 15-year-old’s
funeral in Gaza’s al-Maghazi refugee camp on 12 January.
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