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More than 150 children killed by Israelis in the occupied West Bank since October
Mourners take the last look at the body of Palestinian girl Bana Bakr, 13, at the family house during her funeral in the West Bank village of Qaryut, south of Nablus, September 7, 2024
MORE than 150 teens and younger children have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since Hamas’s attack on southern Israel last October, it was reported today.
Amnesty International said that most of the dead were killed during the nearly daily raids carried out by the Israelis using disproportionate and unlawful force.
Amjad Hamadneh lost his teenage son Mahmoud when the boy’s school dismissed students at the start of a May raid.
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