Update: Two more Palestinian teenagers were shot dead by Israeli police on Monday after carrying out two separate knife attacks in Jerusalem, injuring a total of three Israelis. Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager and airstrikes killed a toddler and a pregnant woman, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed in October to 27, with thousands more injured, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement posted to its Facebook page on Monday. According to the statement, 14 of the casualties occurred in the West Bank and 11 in the Gaza Strip, while 1300 sustained injuries from live and rubber bullets during the same time period. Thousands more have suffered from non-fatal suffocation due to poisonous gases. The statement went on to say that 8 of the 25 casualties – representing around a third of the total – were children, which the Minister of Health Jawad Awaad said indicates that Israeli forces are “directly targeting” children. 13-year-old Ahmad Sharake was shot dead on Sunday by Israeli forces during clashes near the West Bank city of Ramallah, where hundreds of Palestinians allegedly gathered to throw rocks at Israeli settlers’ cars….
Updated: Palestinian Death Toll Mounts as Israel-Palestine Tensions Continue to Escalate
October 12, 2015
