Adam, Fuad, Abdullah, Omar: The 28 Palestinian Kids Killed by Israeli Forces This Year - Israel News - Haaretz.com
Israeli forces, usually the army, have killed 28 children so far this year in the West Bank and Jerusalem:
January 1: Fuad Abed, 17. Shot in the abdomen and thigh during a raid aimed at demolishing houses in the village of Kafr Dan near Jenin, punishment for an earlier attack by one of the family members. Youths were clashing with the invaders.
January 3: Adam Ayyad, 15. Shot in the back and arm during a raid on the Deheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem. Young people were throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at the invaders.
January 5: Amer Zeitoun, 16. Shot in the head, arm and leg during a raid on the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. Young people were clashing with invading soldiers.
January 16: Amru al-Khmour, 14. Shot in the head during a raid on the Deheisheh refugee camp. Youths were throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.
January 25: Wadia Abu Ramouz, 17. Shot in the heart during clashes with the Border Police in Silwan, Jerusalem. His body was returned to the family on June 2. The Border Police is tasked with protecting Jews taking over land and houses in the neighborhood.
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January 25: Mohammed Ali, 16 or 18. Shot during a raid aimed at demolishing a house in the Shoafat refugee camp. He was holding a toy pistol, threw it away, fled and was shot in the back. The family was allowed to bury him on February 5.
January 26: Abdullah Moussa, 17. Shot in the chest during a raid on the Jenin refugee camp and a clash with armed men.
January 26: Waseem Abu Jaouz, 16. Shot during a raid on the Jenin refugee camp. He was run over by an army jeep as the force was leaving the camp.
January 26: Naif al-Awdat, 10, from Nuseirat in Gaza. He died of wounds sustained during an August 6 airstrike on the village of Abassan as he was returning to his grandfather's home from a grocery store.
February 7: Hamza Ashkar, 16. Shot in the chest during a raid on the new Askar refugee camp after he threw an iron rod at an armored jeep as the army was departing.
Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Qafin late last month.Credit: Majdi Mohammed /AP
February 8: Muntaser al-Shawa, 16. Shot in the head after firing at the army and Jewish worshippers, who had invaded Nablus near the Balata refugee camp.
February 13: Qusai Waked, 14. Shot in the abdomen during a raid on the Jenin refugee camp.
February 14: Mahmoud Ayyad, 17. Shot in the eye during a raid on the Far’a refugee camp. He was running with an explosive device in his hand.
February 22: Mohammed Farid, 16. Shot during a raid on Nablus.
March 3: Mohammed Salim, 17. Shot in the back during a raid on the town of Azzun near Qalqilyah after he and others threw Molotov cocktails on the road.
March 7: Waleed Nassar, 15. Shot in the abdomen while throwing stones at soldiers invading the Jenin refugee camp.
March 10: Amir Odeh, 14. Shot in the chest after climbing over the separation barrierat the Eyal checkpoint at Qalqilyah. He also threw a Molotov cocktail at a fortified army watchtower. No soldiers were hurt.
March 16: Omar Awadeen, 14. Shot in the back by undercover special forces while he was riding his bike in Jenin.
April 10: Mohammed Balhan, 17. Shot in the head, chest, abdomen and pelvis during an invasion of the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp, with stones thrown at the invaders.
April 28: Mustafa Sabah, 15. Shot in the heart after he and his friends threw stones at soldiers 50 meters away as the troops approached in the village of Tekoa near Bethlehem.
May 1: Mohammed al-Lad’a, 17. Shot in the head during a raid on the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp during clashes with soldiers.
May 9: Mayar Ezzeddin, 11 and Ali Ezzeddin, 8. Killed at home in the giant prison known as the Gaza Strip during an airstrike. The target: their father.
May 9: Hajar al-Bahtini, 5. Killed in an airstrike on Gaza. The target: her father.
May 9: Eman Addas, 17 (and her 19-year-old sister). Killed in an airstrike on Gaza. The target: her neighbor.
May 10: Layan Mdoukh, 10. Killed during an airstrike on the Gaza neighborhood of al-Tufah.
May 10: Tamim Daoud, 5. Died of fear, literally, during an airstrike on Gaza.
May 10: Yazen Elian, 16. Killed in an airstrike on Gaza.
June 6: Mahmoud Tamimi, 2. Shot in the head in the village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah from an army watchtower, placed there to protect the expansion of the Neveh Tzuf settlement, which was built on Nabi Saleh's land.
This list is based on data collected by left-wing activist Adi Ronen Argov and by Israeli rights group B’Tselem, and on media reports.
Since September 30, 2000, the start of the second intifada, Israeli forces have killed 2,252 Palestinian children, 42 of them last year. Forty-four percent of the 5 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza (including Jerusalem) are under 18.
They were born into the violent reality of the military power ruling their lives, settling on their land and having no regard for their lives. These children mature fast, living with no hope for normalcy or a decent present or future.