Gaza _ Palestine News Network
The Israeli forces have killed 37 children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and 13 others have been disabled since the beginning of this year, the Defence for Children International (DCI) said.
In a press statement, the Palestine Movement Branch reported on Sunday that the Israeli authorities deliberately killed Palestinian children by deliberately and directly targeting them, with the intention of killing them or causing them permanent damage.
The movement quoted eyewitness testimonies indicating that the children who were killed were not a threat to the lives of the soldiers.
She referred to the incident of the martyrdom of the child, Abu Khamacash (one and a half years) and her mother, who was nine months pregnant, and her father was injured when Israeli planes bombed their house in Deir al-Balah (central Gaza Strip) on the 9th of this month.
The statement said that killing was not the only way for Palestinian children to be killed.
It referred to the cases of children: Abdallah Kassem, Ali Froannit and Saleh Ashour, from the Gaza Strip, where he lost his feet after being injured by an Israeli sniper during his participation in the return marches on the Gaza Strip border, while the lower limbs were paralysed.
"The movement" said that "Ashour" lost sight after being shot in the head.
The global movement called for the need to open professional, transparent and impartial investigations into shooting incidents carried out by the Israeli army in a manner contrary to international or Israeli standards, and to hold accountable those soldiers who target peaceful demonstrators, especially children, with intent to kill or cause them Permanent disabilities.
The defence for Children Global Movement/Palestine Branch is part of the international coalition of the Global Movement for Children´s defence, founded in Geneva in 1979.
