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Khaled Amer Hmeidat, 16, and Suleiman Mohammad Suleiman Kanaan, 17. Published by IMEMC News
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by IMEMC News
Jan 15, 2024

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Sunday, two Palestinian children at the northern entrance to the city of Al-Biereh, east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.

On Sunday evening, Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian children at the northern entrance to the city of Al-Biereh, east of Ramallah.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the child, Suleiman Mohammad Suleiman Kanaan, 17, arrived dead at the Istishari Arab Hospital after Israeli soldiers shot him in the heart with live ammunition.

The General Authority for Civil Affairs informed the Ministry of a second child, Khaled Amer Hmeidat, 16, who was shot and killed by the army at the northern entrance to Al-Biereh, adding that Israeli authorities are still withholding the body.

Earlier Sunday, Israeli forces killed a Jordanian-Palestinian child in the Ein Al-Sultan refugee camp northwest of Jericho city in the northeastern part of the West Bank.

Medical sources confirmed that Israeli forces shot and killed the child, Lu’ay Majed Salem Soufi, 16, in the chest with live ammunition while he was in front of his relative’s home.

In the southern West Bank, Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Sunday, two Palestinian young men near Sa’ir town, northeast of Hebron.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), occupation soldiers shot and killed Ahmad Mousa Mohammad Jabarin and Jalal Issa Mohammad Jabarin.

Israeli forces have killed at least 352 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

In Gaza, the occupation has killed 23,968 Palestinians and injured more than 60,582 since October 7, 2023; most of whom are women, children, and the elderly.