The Israeli human rights center B’Tselem on Saturday said that the Israeli army in January 2018 deliberately killed five Palestinians four of whom were children without justification.
B’Tselem revealed in a report that on 3rd January the Israeli soldiers shot Mus’ab al-Soufi 16 a resident of Deir Nizam village in Ramallah in the neck and killed him.
On 11th January according to the human rights center the Israeli soldiers shot the 17-year-old Ali Qino directly in the head in Iraq Burin village in Nablus. On the same day Amir Abu Musaed 15 was killed in a similar incident during a demonstration near the border fence east of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip.
Both Ahmad Salim 28 and Laith Abu Naim 16 were killed in Qalqilya and Ramallah respectively after being targeted with live bullets to the head for no apparent reason.
Based on B’Tselem’s investigation the Israeli soldiers opened fire at those Palestinians particularly in the upper parts of their bodies during peaceful demonstrations and stone-throwing protests which means that they were not posing any threat to the soldiers’ lives.
The report underlined that such practices make open-fire instructions meaningless because the purpose of these instructions is to limit the use of live ammunition for killing. They also reflect Israel’s blatant disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians it added.
