Israeli Attacks Kill Eight Palestinians in Gaza, Teenager in West Bank

Israeli attacks have killed at least eight Palestinians including two children in Gaza, and a 15-year-old boy in the occupied West Bank.

An Israeli drone attacked the Wadi al-Salqa bridge on al-Baraka Street in central Gaza on Monday morning, killing eight-year-old Malik Wael Abu Shaweesh, as well as Ali Fayez Isbaitan and Hassan Salman al-Hanajra, the Wafa news agency reported.

In a separate incident, a displaced twenty-three year old woman and her one-year old daughter were killed when their tent was hit by an Israeli attack in the al-Mawasi neighbourhood in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Another Israeli strike in the town of Qarara, north west of Khan Younis, killed a thirty-one year old man, according to Nasser Medical Complex, and two people were killed when an Israeli strike hit a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians along the coastal area of Khan Younis.

In the West Bank, 15-year-old Ahmad Jawad Jaber died on the way to hospital after being shot in the chest and head during an Israeli raid on the Umm al-Sharayit neighbourhood in el-Bireh, near Ramallah, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Laila Ghannam, the governor of Ramallah and el-Bireh, was among the mourners at the Palestine Medical Complex where the teenager’s body was taken.

“Today, we witnessed a clear-cut execution in broad daylight,” Ghannam told AFP. She said his killing was “a disgrace to all institutions who claim to uphold democracy and human rights”.

Israeli rights group B’Tselem issued a report on Monday saying Israeli forces have killed 241 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank since October 7, 2023.

“The widespread, unprecedented killing of Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank is the result of a broader Israeli policy that enables the killing of Palestinians with virtually no accountability,” said B’Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak.

Israeli authorities have refused to return some of the children’s bodies to their families, the report added.

Overall, at least 1,085 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers since October 7, 2023.

In Gaza more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed over the same period, according to the figures from the Gaza health ministry.