Democracy and Human Rights Center- SHAMS, strongly condemns the Israeli Occupation’s Army latest crime of murdering the Palestinian Child, Zaid Muhammad Saeed Ghneim from Al- Khader Village, to the West of Bethlehem City (15 years old, student of the ninth Grade at Martyr Saeed el- Assi Boys School in the village). He was shoot dead on Friday evening (27/5/2022) where the Israeli soldiers targeted him with live ammunition with a bullet in the neck and another in the back. SHAMS emphasizes here that the ongoing targeting of the Palestinian civilians by the Israeli Occupation’s Army, especially targeting children, who are all protected under the international humanitarian law, is nothing but a smirch on the face of the Israeli army and its leaders.
SHAMS demands the United Nations for immediate black listing of the Israeli army as it is the most army that targets children on the level of the world. SHAMS believes that the reluctant in endorsing the Israeli army among the UN black lists during last year, looks as if were a reward for Israel for its crimes; and stood as a green light for the Israeli Occupation’s Army to proceed in killing Palestinian children and increases the horrible violations and war crimes against Palestinians, being aware that it is free of being accounted or sanctioned.
Democracy and Human Rights Media Center- SHAMS reminds here that the Israeli Occupation forces target the Palestinian children systematically. Targeting civil Palestinians, including children, in the upper parts of the bodies indicates that it is predetermined crime by the Israeli army to increase the number of victims among Palestinians. The behavior of the Israeli soldiers in killing Palestinians is a clear interpretation of the instructions and orders to the Occupation’s soldiers not to hesitate in shooting live ammunition towards Palestinians.
Democracy and Human Rights Media Center- SHAMS demands the United Nations and its various organizations, especially UNICEF, to fulfill their legal and moral responsibilities in protecting the Palestinian children and bridle the Israeli occupation attacks against Palestinian civilians. SHAMS calls upon the United Nations for immediate addressing of the Occupation’s government to end its crimes and gross violations of Palestinians human rights and crimes against Palestinian children. SHAMS would like to remind the world that martyr Zaid is the second child from the same school who is being murdered by the Israeli occupation’s forces within a duration of two months. Likewise, he is the second child to be murdered during the last forty- eighth hour,s as the child Ghaith Yamin (16 years old) was murdered in Nablus on 25/5/2022
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