Israel kills 10th Palestinian child in occupied West Bank

A 17-year-old was among 10 people killed in a double Israeli drone attack in Tammun in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday night, Defence for Children International (DCI) said.

The child rights organisation said the slain teenager, Jihad Nasser Yousef Bani Matar,  had “shrapnel wounds and burns all over his body” when he was brought to hospital after the attack.

His death brings the number of Palestinian children killed in the occupied territory this year to 10, six killed in drone attacks and four shot dead by Israeli forces, DCI said.

Israel now routinely carries out air strikes “in densely populated areas with no regard for Palestinian children’s lives”, the organisation added, noting: “No one has been held responsible for killing these ten children.”