Israeli forces used US weapons to kill ‘children without restraint’: Rights group
Defense for Children International Palestine called on the US to stop sending weapons that the Israeli military uses to kill Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank.
The children’s rights group identified the killing in Jenin of two 15-year-old boys by Israeli snipers on Tuesday morning – one of whom was “returning home from school on his electric bicycle” and killed “in circumstances that may amount to extrajudicial or wilful killings”.
“The United States must stop sending weapons to the Israeli military that are used to kill Palestinian children without restraint, whether in Gaza or Jenin,” the organisation said in a statement.
Mahmoud Amjad Ismail Hamadneh & Osama Mohammad Naim Abdulatif Hujair, both 15, were shot and killed by Israeli forces during a military incursion into Jenin yesterday.
— Defense for Children (@DCIPalestine) May 22, 2024
Mahmoud was killed while riding his bike on his way home from school.
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