Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) is committed to securing a just and viable future for Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. (https://www.dci-palestine.org/)
Ramallah, November 26, 2024—Israeli armed forces have forced Palestinian children to act as human shields during the siege on Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza, placing them directly in harm’s way amid live fire and tank shelling.
14-year-old Ziad traveled from Gaza to Egypt alone after sustaining serious injuries when an Israeli quadcopter targeted him with live ammunition. (Photo: DCIP)
11-year-old Abdullah Jamal Nidal Hawash was shot and killed by Israeli forces in Nablus on October 22, 2024. (Photo: Courtesy of the Hawash family)
Israeli forces gather on a road during a raid at the al-Fara’a camp for Palestinian refugees north of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank on October 10, 2024. (Photo: Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP)
Rayan Ibrahim Hasan Al-Sayed, 14, was killed by Israeli forces on October 14, 2024. (Photo: Courtesy of the Al-Sayed family)
Children ride a bicycle across a war-devastated street in Gaza City on October 2, 2024, amid the ongoing Israeli genocide. (Photo: Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
The report, “Targeting Childhood: Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank,” details and analyzes Palestinian child fatalities in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, between October 7, 2023, and July 31, 2024. Israeli forces routinely targeted Palestinian children with live ammunition and aerial attacks, prevented ambulances and paramedics from reaching wounded children, and confiscated children’s bodies in violation of international law.
15-year-old Adnan Aysar Adnan Jaber, (left) 13-year-old Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Elian, (center) and 17-year-old Mosab Hassan Ali Moqasqas (left) were killed by Israeli forces in two separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on August 25 and 26. (Photos: Courtesy of the Jaber, Elian, and Moqasqas families)
13-year-old Murad Masoud Mohammad Na’ja (left) and 17-year-old Mohammad Masoud Mohammad Na’ja (right) were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Al-Far’a refugee camp. (Photo: Courtesy of the Na’ja family)
Brothers Abdulmumin, 16, and Ali D. were detained and tortured by Israeli forces in Gaza City in December 2023. (Photo: Courtesy of the family)
