The Israel army on Friday killed one child and wounded dozens during raids across the occupied West Bank. A 13-year-old boy, Mohammed Daadas, was shot dead by the Israeli army.
Daadas, who was from the Askar refugee camp in Nablus, was shot in the stomach during a post-prayer confrontation with Israeli forces in Deir al-Hatab, a village east of Nablus.
The region has been the site of repeated attacks by Israeli settler-colonists over the past month.
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib and the peace group CodePink were among those who condemned Friday’s killing by Israeli forces
“It is precisely efforts to seek justice for victims like Mohammed that Israel wants to eliminate by targeting human rights groups.”
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Daadas died in a Nablus hospital later Friday after attempts to save his life failed.
Tlaib (D-Mich.), the first Palestinian-American woman elected to Congress, responded to the boy’s death by tweeting, “Our country must stop enabling the killing of children.”
The United States gives nearly $4 billion in annual, no-strings-attached military aid to Israel, one of the world’s wealthiest nations on a per-capita basis.
Noting the high number of Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces, the women-led peace group CodePink asked, “How many more?
Israeli forces killed 67 children during this year’s Operation Guardian of the Walls assault on Gaza and, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Information, at least 3,090 children since 2000.
