“They were trying to exterminate us”: Palestinian children in Gaza tortured by Israeli military
Brothers Abdulmumin, 16, and Ali D. were detained and tortured by Israeli forces in Gaza City in December 2023. (Photo: Courtesy of the family)
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/)
Brothers Abdulmumin, 16, and Ali D. were detained and tortured by Israeli forces in Gaza City in December 2023. (Photo: Courtesy of the family)
Palestinian child is waiting to have food at a food distribution point in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip on July 18, 2024, amid the ongoing Israeli genocide (Photo: Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
14-year-old Ghassan Gharib Hussein Zahran was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the central occupied West Bank yesterday. (Photo: Courtesy of the Zahran family)
13-year-old Karam, left, 12-year-old Mohammad, center, and 14-year-old Ibrahim, right, were used as human shields by Israeli forces on May 6 in Tulkarem refugee camp, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine. (Photos: Courtesy of the families)
17-year-old Abdullah Mahmoud Mohammad Qaisi (left), and 17-year-old Iyad Nidal Azmi Kanouh (right) were killed by Israeli forces during an incursion into Nour Shams refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank. (Photos: Courtesy of the Qaisi and Kanouh families)
Children carry kitchen utensils as they walk toward a food distribution point in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 7, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
Israeli forces shot and killed 14-year-old Wadea Shadi Sa’d Elayan on February 5. (Photo: Courtesy of the Elayan family)
Four-year-old Ruqaya Ahmad Odeh Jahalin was shot and killed by Israeli forces on January 7, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine. (Photo: Courtesy of the Jahalin family)
Khaled Amer Khaled Hmaidat, 16, left, Suleiman Mohammad Suleiman Kanaan, 17, center, and Luai Majed Salem Al-Soufi, 16, right, were all shot and killed by Israeli forces on January 14. (Photos: Courtesy of the Hmaidat, Suleiman, and Al-Soufi families)
Members of the Israeli border guard detain a demonstrator during a protest in the flashpoint neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem on February 18, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)