These are the Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2017.
Fourteen Palestinian boys and girls under the age of 18 were shot dead by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the year.
There were 21 fewer children killed than in 2016, which was the
deadliest year for Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank in the past decade.
In addition to those 14 shot and killed during 2017, a child
died of wounds sustained in an Israeli drone strike years earlier.
Another was
killed by Israeli ordnance while grazing livestock. A baby living in temporary shelter, his family homeless as a result of
Israeli bombing,
died of cold exposure.
Palestinian children also died because they were
unable to secure permits to leave via the Israeli-controlled Erez checkpoint for medical treatment unavailable in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Emergency room doctors were unable to resuscitate a seriously ill 9-year-old girl in the West Bank after
Israeli soldiers denied her family passage at a checkpoint; a trip that normally would take 15 minutes took her family 90 minutes after they were forced to detour and go through a different checkpoint.
No Israeli children were killed by Palestinians during the year. An Israeli woman wounded during a bus stop bombing in 2011, when she was 14, and who had never regained consciousness,
died of her injures in 2017.
These are the Palestinian children Israel killed in 2017
Snipers ordered to shoot children, Israeli general confirms
22 April 2018
An Israeli general has confirmed that when
snipers stationed along Israel’s boundary with
Gaza shoot at children, they are doing so deliberately, under clear and specific orders.
In a radio interview, Brigadier-General (Reserve)
Zvika Fogel describes how a sniper identifies the “small body” of a child and is given authorization to shoot.
Fogel’s statements could be used as evidence of intent if Israeli leaders are ever tried for war crimes at the
International Criminal Court.
On Friday, an
Israeli sniper shot dead 14-year-old Muhammad Ibrahim Ayyoub.
The boy,
shot in the head east of Jabaliya, was the fourth child among the
more than 30 Palestinians killed during the Great March of Return rallies that began in Gaza on 30 March.
More than 1,600 other Palestinians have been shot with live ammunition that has caused what doctors are calling “
horrific injuries” likely to leave many of them with permanent disabilities.
Our initial investigation confirms Israeli forces
killed 14-year-old Mahmoud Ibrahim Ayoub in Gaza today around 4:30 pm local time.
He sustained a gunshot wound to the head & was later pronounced dead at Shifa hospital.
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Snipers ordered to shoot children, Israeli general confirms
UN envoy tells ‘outrageous’ Israel to stop shooting children in Gaza
20 April 2018, 10:57 pm
Palestinians say four killed, including a 15-year-old boy; Israel urges UN to condemn Hamas for ‘despicable exploitation of women and children’
The United Nations envoy to the region on Friday slammed Israel’s response to the Gaza protests as “outrageous” and called on the IDF to stop shooting children after four Palestinians, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed during clashes along the Gaza border fence.
“It is OUTRAGEOUS to shoot at children!” tweeted UN Middle East peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov.
“How does the killing of a child in #Gaza today help #peace? It doesn’t! It fuels anger and breeds more killing. #Children must be protected from #violence, not exposed to it, not killed! This tragic incident must be investigated,” he wrote.
UN envoy tells ‘outrageous’ Israel to stop shooting children in Gaza
Israeli security forces 'killed 25 Palestinian children' in three months, UNICEF says
Posted 14 May 2016, 2:52pm
Twenty-five Palestinian children were killed in the last three months of 2015 during a wave of violence, the United Nations' children's agency says.
Israel killed 25 Palestinian children in three months, UNICEF says
Murdering children is NOT God's way, now or ever
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