OHCHR studies dying toll after Israeli army’s taking pictures of 11-year-old Abdullah Jamal Hawash in Nablus.
The United Nations says that Israeli forces have killed 165 kids within the occupied West Financial institution over the previous yr.
The Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported on Wednesday that the Israeli army had killed 36 kids in air strikes and 129 with stay ammunition, “most within the head or higher physique”.
Israeli troopers shot Abdullah Jamal Hawash, 11, within the chest on Tuesday for throwing stones at an armoured automobile in Nablus, as reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Well being within the West Financial institution.
In movies posted by native media, the boy was seen throwing a stone at an armoured Israeli four-wheel drive within the distance earlier than he was shot, falling to the bottom.
Hawash posed “no real looking risk” to Israeli forces, mentioned OHCHR’s workplace within the occupied Palestinian territory.
His dying got here after Israeli forces shot a 17-year-old within the head in Hebron on Sunday, leaving him in a important situation.
Three days earlier, one other 11-year-old was additionally shot within the head and critically injured by Israeli troops within the Hebron governorate’s Arroub refugee camp.
The Israeli military additionally stepped up its offensive within the West Financial institution in a single day, storming Nablus, the town of el-Bireh, the city of Deir Abu Mishal, west of Ramallah, the Balata camp, east of Nablus, and the Fawwar camp, south of Hebron.
Within the Fawwar refugee camp, Israeli forces launched an arrest marketing campaign. The Palestinian information company Wafa confirmed that at the very least seven individuals had been arrested.
As well as, Israeli forces arrested one particular person from the village of al-Hadab and three individuals from the city of Dura, each southwest of Hebron.
Israel’s continued onslaught on the West Financial institution comes because the nation celebrates the annual vacation of Simchat Torah.
A video on Telegram, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking company, confirmed Israeli settlers performing Talmudic rituals on the Western Wall – which Muslims seek advice from because the Buraq Wall – within the Previous Metropolis of Jerusalem within the occupied territory.
The wall is adjoining to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the place Israeli settlers have repeatedly carried out Talmudic rituals previously few months whereas escorted by armed safety forces.
Israeli far-right Nationwide Safety Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has stormed the mosque compound a number of instances because the begin of the battle on Gaza.
