PALESTINE: A 15-year-old boy has been killed by Israeli troops in Gaza, the territory’s Health Ministry said yesterday.

Moumin Abu Eiada was killed while protesting against the blockade of the strip, which is under siege from Israel.

His death brings the recorded number of children killed by the Israeli Defence Forces since March to 22, alongside hundreds of adults shot down while demonstrating for the right of return to land seized from them or their parents when Israel was founded in 1948.

POLAND: The European Court of Human Rights ruled yesterday that Warsaw violated the rights of two women whose husbands were exhumed without their consent.

Polish Law and Justice Party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski ordered autopsies in 2016 of many of the victims of the 2010 plane crash that killed his brother, then Polish president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others near Smolensk. The crash has been determined an accident but Mr Kaczynski has long alleged that his brother was assassinated.

The court ruled that the women’s right to respect for private and family life was breached by the probe, and ordered the Polish government to pay them €16,000 (£14,000) each.