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How children in West Bank are being killed by Israel ‘without accountability’

How children in West Bank are being killed by Israel ‘without accountability’

IDF has killed 235 children in territory since 7 October 2023 with no indictments in what activists say is ‘licence to kill’On the day he died, Mohammad al-Halaq had been jubilant about a new school bag he had been given in class, printed with the logo of the UN child protection and advocacy agency, Unicef.“He was extremely happy. It was something out of the ordinary for him to be given a bag,” recalled his mother, Aliyah. “He came knocking on the door to tell me had this new bag to put pencils and pens in.”

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How children in West Bank are being killed by Israel ‘without accountability’