AN 11-YEAR OLD Palestinian boy has been killed in the West Bank by the Israeli military.
The victim, Abdullah Jamal Hawash, posed “no realistic threat” to Israeli forces when he was shot in the chest for throwing stones at an armoured vehicle in Nablus, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said.
The UN said it brings the number of Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank to 165 in the past year alone.
It follows a 17-year-old in Hebron being shot in the head by Israeli forces on Sunday. He is now in critical condition.
Three days earlier, another 11-year-old was also shot in the head and critically injured by Israeli forces in the Hebron governorate’s Arroub refugee camp.
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The UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory posted on Twitter/X: “Last night, the Israeli Security Forces (ISF) shot in the chest and killed an 11-year-old Palestinian boy throwing stones at armoured vehicles in #Nablus despite posing no realistic threat.
“In the past year alone, ISF killed 165 Palestinian children in the West Bank.”
Hi @Dannythefink!
— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) October 23, 2024
You have claimed that the Israeli army do not target children, they only target Hamas.
These are the last moments of 11 year old Abdullah Hawash.
This is the West Bank, which is not ruled by Hamas.
How would you describe this exactly? https://t.co/f0yG4Ohxjs pic.twitter.com/YmGhZd5lal
Since last year, 165 Palestinian children have been killed in the occupied West Bank – 129 shot by Israeli soldiers and 36 killed in Israeli air strikes, the UN said.
Elsewhere, Lebanon’s health ministry has said at least one person was killed and five wounded as Israel carried out at least 17 attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight, levelling six buildings in raids that began without warning.
Broadcaster Al Jazeera has also strongly rejected a claim from the Israeli military that six of its journalists based in Gaza are members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
On Wednesday evening, the media network condemned the “unfounded allegations” by the Israeli army.
In a post on Twitter/X, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) named six Al Jazeera correspondents as “operatives” working for Hamas’s armed wing to promote the group’s “propaganda”.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 128 journalists and media workers have been killed in Israeli attacks since the bombardment started.
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