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Mourners take the last look at the body of Palestinian girl Bana Bakr, 13, at the family house during her funeral in the West Bank village of Qaryut, south of Nablus, September 7, 2024
MORE than 150 teens and younger children have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since Hamas’s attack on southern Israel last October, it was reported today.
Amnesty International said that most of the dead were killed during the nearly daily raids carried out by the Israelis using disproportionate and unlawful force.
Amjad Hamadneh lost his teenage son Mahmoud when the boy’s school dismissed students at the start of a May raid.
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
