OHCHR reports death toll after Israeli army shooting of 11-year-old Abdullah Jamal Hawash in Nablus.
The United Nations says Israeli forces have killed 165 children in the occupied West Bank over the past year.
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported on Wednesday that the Israeli army had killed 36 children in airstrikes and 129 with live ammunition, “most in the head or upper body.”
Israeli soldiers shot 11-year-old Abdullah Jamal Hawash in the chest on Tuesday for throwing stones at an armored vehicle in Nablus, the Palestinian Health Ministry in the West Bank reported.
In videos published by local media, the boy was seen throwing a stone into the distance at an Israeli armored four-wheel drive vehicle before being shot and falling to the ground.
Hawash poses “no realistic threat” to Israeli forces, the OHCHR office in the occupied Palestinian territory said.
His death came after Israeli forces shot him in the head in Hebron on Sunday, leaving him in critical condition.
Three days earlier, another 11-year-old child was also shot in the head and seriously injured by Israeli troops in the Arroub refugee camp in Hebron governorate.
The Israeli army also intensified its offensive in the West Bank overnight, storming Nablus, the town of el-Bireh, the town of Deir Abu Mishal, west of Ramallah, the Balata camp, east of Nablus, and the Fawwar camp, south of Ramallah. Hebron.
At least 18 Palestinians, including a journalist and former prisoners, have been arrested in the West Bank since Wednesday evening, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Nine of the arrests took place in the Fawwar camp, with the army destroying citizens’ homes and using detainees as human shields, Wafa said.
Additionally, Israeli forces arrested one person from the village of al-Hadab and three people from the town of Dura, both southwest of Hebron.
The recent arrests bring the total number of people detained since the start of the war on Gaza to more than 11,400 people, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society.
Israel’s continued offensive against the West Bank comes as the country celebrates the annual holiday of Simchat Torah.
A video on Telegram, verified by Tel Aviv Tribune’s Sanad fact-checking agency, showed Israeli settlers performing Talmudic rituals at the Western Wall – which Muslims call the Buraq Wall – in the Old City of Jerusalem, in the occupied territory.
The wall is adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where Israeli settlers have repeatedly performed Talmudic rituals in recent months under escort by armed security forces.
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has stormed the mosque compound several times since the start of the war on Gaza.
