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for fear that he too would be shot, Haaretz added. The soldiers,
seeing the vehicle pulling out, opened fire at it, though they had
no idea who was inside it.
The driver managed to escape on foot while Adnan, still inside the
van, was struck in the upper right side of his body and died soon
after in hospital.
Ruqayya Abu Eid, 13
Ruqayya was shot dead by a private security guard after she
allegedly attempted to stab him in the Anatot settlement near
Jerusalem on 23 January.
A Palestinian member of Israels parliament, the
Knesset, condemned the girls slaying. Even if she had a knife, it
would have been possible to arrest a girl that age instead of
killing her, Esawi Frej of the Meretz party said.
Haaretz reported that Ruqayya died of a single bullet wound to
the heart.
I have no explanation for her decision, the girls father told the
paper. There were two guards there, and they could have
overcome her. A little girl. They are trained and armed, you know,
so how is it they could not arrest a little girl of 13? Was a girl of 13
a threat to them? Whatever she planned to do, they could still
have arrested her.
Ruqayya was laid to rest in the village of al-Karmel east of the
West Bank town of Yatta, near Hebron.
Hussein Abu Ghosh, 17
Hussein was shot dead by an Israeli security guard at a
supermarket in Beit Horon settlement near the central West Bank
city of Ramallah on 25 January.
The youth was killed along with Ibrahim Usama Allan, 23, after
stabbing two Israeli women; one of the women, 24-year-old
Shlomit Krigman, died from her injuries the following day. Israeli
media reported that Allan and Hussein were shot as they ran,
suggesting the two may have been extrajudicially executed.
Israeli forces destroyed Husseins family home in Qalandiya
refugee camp near Ramallah in April.
Punitive home demolitions, along with other acts of collective
punishment, are considered a war crime under the Fourth Geneva
Convention.
Ahmad Hassan Abd al-Latif Tubah, 17
Ahmad, from the village of Kufr Jammal, was killed by Israeli
forces after allegedly attempting to stab a soldier near a
settlement in the Tulkarm, West Bank, area on 1 February. No
soldiers were reported to have been injured.
According to media reports, he crossed the [Israels wall in the
West Bank] without an entry permit and was discovered by
soldiers who tried to apprehend him. He then pulled a knife on
them and was shot, the Israeli human rights group BTselem
reported.
Haitham Saada, 14
Haitham died after he was hit by two bullets fired by soldiers near
the entrance to Halhoul village, near Hebron, on 5 February. The
army said that the boy was preparing to throw a Molotov cocktail
at soldiers when he was killed.
Other than Haithams younger cousin, Wajdi, who was also in his
class and was with him when he died, and the soldiers, of course,
there are no eyewitnesses who can relate what happened and
why Haitham was shot and killed, the Tel Aviv
newspaper Haaretz reported at the time. Wajdi was arrested on
the spot and is still incarcerated in Ofer Camp, near Ramallah. He
has not been allowed visitors.
Omar Yousif Ismail Madi, 15
Omar was slain by a bullet when Israeli soldiers fired on youths
who were throwing stones at them in Arroub refugee camp near
Yusif, from the village of Bani Naim, was shot dead by soldiers
after he hit a military officer with his car in Kiryat Arba settlement
near Hebron on 14 March. The officer was lightly injured,
according to the Israeli human rights group BTselem.
Abdallah al-Ajluni, 16
Abdallah, from the West Bank city of Hebron, was shot dead by
Israeli Border Police after he stabbed and lightly injured a soldier
at at checkpoint near the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebrons Old City on
19 March.
Ibrahim Salih Hassan Taha, 16
Ibrahim was killed along with his pregnant adult sister, Maram
Salih Hassan Abu Ismail, a 23-year-old mother of two small
children, at the Qalandiya military checkpoint between Ramallah
and Jerusalem on 27 April.
Israeli police claimed the siblings were carrying knives and
attempted to attack soldiers. No Israelis were injured during the
incident.
Israels justice ministry declined to open an investigation after an
initial probe found that the brother and sister were shot by civilian
security guards and not by police.
Mahmoud Badran, 15
Mahmoud, from the central West Bank village of Beit Ur al-Tahta,
was killed when Israeli forces opened fire on a car of young
Palestinians returning from a late-night pool party celebrating
Ramadan on 21 June. Five others were injured during the incident,
including the driver of the car, who lost control of the vehicle
and crashed into a wall.
The army admitted the Palestinians were mistakenly hit while
soldiers were responding to reports of rock-throwing and
firebombing on a highway used by settlers in the West Bank.
that they were passing by, on their way to take care of logistical
matters, BTselem stated, adding that the soldiers arbitrarily
fired at the car, having no indication that any of its passengers
had been involved in stone or Molotov cocktail throwing.
According to the rights group, This shooting incident is a direct
result of military policy which enables, despite the official
prohibition in the [Israeli militarys] open-fire regulations, to use
deadly fire even in cases where there is no threat to life and even
when the soldiers have other, non-lethal, means at their disposal.
This policy is backed by the most senior ranking military and
government officials who do nothing do change it, despite the
lethal results.
Muhammad Nasir Mahmoud Khalil al-Tarayra, 16
Muhammad was shot dead after after stabbing a 13-year-old girl,
Hallel Yaffa Ariel, in her home in the Kiryat Arba settlement near
Hebron on 30 June.
The New York Times reported that Muhammad then locked himself
in the girls house for some time while armed residents of the
settlement, including the girls father, tried to track down who had
breached the settlements fence.
When they forced their way into her home, Muhammad, from the
nearby village of Bani Naim, stabbed one of the armed settlers
before being shot dead.
Ariel was rushed to a hospital, where she died a short time later.
The US State Department confirmed the girl held American
citizenship. Ariel was the only Israeli child killed by Palestinians
during 2016.
Israeli forces demolished the home belonging to Muhammads
family in August.
Muhyee al-Din Muhammad Sudqi Sadiq Tibakhi, 10
Muhyee is the second Palestinian child to be killed by a spongetipped bullet, according to the group. Muhammad Sinokrot, 16,
died of his injuries in 2014 after an Israeli Border Police
combatant shot the right side of his head, causing a skull fracture
and brain hemorrhage. An Israeli investigation of Muhammads
case was closed without charging the Border Police officer
responsible, Defense for Children said.
Abd al-Rahman Ahmad al-Dabbagh, 15
Amir was shot and fatally wounded along with Muhannad Jamal alRajabi, 21, while brandishing a knife at the Ibrahimi mosque
checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron on 19 September. The
Palestine Red Crescent Society told the Maan News Agency that
one of their ambulances was denied access to the scene. An
Israeli soldier was reportedly lightly injured in the hand during the
incident.
Issa Salem Mahmoud al-Tarayra, 15
Issa as slain by soldiers who claimed that the boy was carrying a
knife and intended to stab them at a checkpoint near the West
Bank town of Bani Naim on 20 September. No Israelis were injured
during the incident.
Faris Ziyad Ata al-Bayid, 15
Israeli forces shot Ahmad when he was running away from them
on 18 December, security camera footage released by BTselem
shows.
Ahmad was among a group of youths attempting to repel the
forces from entering Beit Rima, a village near the West Bank city
of Ramallah.
BTselem stated that the youths were some 10 to 20 meters
away from the soldiers and officers, and they were running away
from them when they were fired on. There was no justification
for shooting them and this action was unlawful.
Names and ages reported here may vary from earlier reporting by
The Electronic Intifada. All names, ages and dates of deadly
incidents presented here have been verified with Defense for
Children International - Palestine, which obtains the childs
government-issued ID card or birth certificate, or both in some
cases, typically from the childs immediate family, to verify name
and age.
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