On the morning of November 29, 2023, the boy Basil Suleiman Abu Al-Wafa left his family’s home in the city of Jenin to have fun with his peers in the Al-Basateen neighborhood. Minutes after he left, and during an Israeli occupation army patrol passing by, the sounds of bullets rang out in the neighborhood where the 15-year-old boy resides, without warning. When Bassel’s family left their house to check on him, they found him wounded by several bullets that penetrated his chest, and did not give him long time to wait until he was taken to the hospital.
After this incident, which was documented by an Israeli soldier’s camera, a similar incident occurred on the same day, in the same city, and at approximately the same time, when soldiers from the Israeli occupation army killed another eight-year-old child from Jenin, named Adam Samer Al-Ghoul, with a bullet to the head.
The irony is that the two incidents of premeditated killing of two Palestinian children occurred during the week of the humanitarian truce that temporarily stopped a fierce Israeli war launched by Israel against the Gaza Strip on October 7.