July 31, 2015: Mohammad Hamid al-Masri, 17, was shot by Israeli soldiers while walking on Palestinian land close to the Israeli border fence. He was killed instantly, and a friend who was with him was also shot and wounded. Mohammad was from Beit Lahia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Source: IMEMC
July 31, 2015: Laith Fadel al-Khalidi, 17, was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers near the Atara roadblock near Ramallah. He underwent two surgeries but succumed to his wounds. Laith was from al-Jalazoun refugee camp in Ramallah in the West Bank. Source: IMEMC
July 31, 2015: Ali Saad Dawabsha, 18 months old, was burned to death after right-wing Israelis firebombed his family’s home. His mother, father, and four-year-old brother, were severely burned, and both of his parents later died of their wounds.
The attack took place at about 2:30 in the morning, in the village of Douma, in the northern part of the West Bank near the city of Nablus.
The Israeli attackers arrived in the dead of night in the village, and began by spray-painting hate slogans against Palestinians on the Dawabsha family home. They then broke a window and threw a firebomb inside, setting off the fire that killed the baby.
The graffiti, written in Hebrew, included the phrase ‘price tag’, which is a slogan used by right-wing Israeli extremists against Palestinians – the reference being that continued Palestinian existence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank would exact a price from the Israeli colonizers.
Ali’s father Sa’ad Dawabsha, and his mother Reham, 37, were also burned to death. Ali’s older brother, Ahmad, four years of age, suffered third degree burns all over his body but survived the attack.
In May 2020, nearly five years after the attack, one of the Israeli attackers was convicted of murder. The other attackers were not convicted, and still walk free.
Israel’s Lod District Court convicted Israeli settler, Amiram Ben-Uliel for his involvement in the arson attack that resulted in the death of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha.
Ben-Uliel was involved in the 2015 attack that killed the infant and severely burned his older brother Ahmad and both his parents, Reham and Sa’ad when the settler, with others, threw flaming Molotov cocktails into the family bedroom.
The Dawabsha family was from Douma village near Nablus. Source: IMEMC
July 27, 2015: Mohammad Ata Lafi Abu Latifa, 20, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during their early morning invasion of the Qalandia refugee camp. Mohammad was on the rooftop of his home when he was shot in his legs, and he was later killed after the soldiers arrested him according to eyewitnesses. Source: IMEMC
July 23, 2015: Falah Hamdi Abu Mariya, 53, was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers in his own home as he tried to help his sons who had just been shot and wounded by the invading soldiers. Falah was from Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in the southern West Bank. Source: IMEMC
July 22, 2015: Mohammad Ahmad Alawna, 21, was shot in the chest by an Israeli soldier, and died shortly after undergoing a surgery that lasted six hours. The Israeli soldiers had invaded the West Bank village of Burqin at dawn. Source: IMEMC
July 3, 2015: Mohammad Hani al-Kasba, 17, was shot while climbing the Annexation Wall, along with dozens of residents, in an attempt to reach the Al-Aqsa Mosque for Friday prayers. After being shot, he fell from a high altitude and slammed into the ground. Mohammad was from Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC
July 29, 2014: Abdel-Ghani Waddah Abu Amer, 10, was killed by Israeli soldiers who fired missiles at a residential building in the al-Mahatta area, in Khan Younis city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, also killing his father, Waddah, 39, his mother, ‘Orouba, 41, and their children, Omar, 12, Imad, 9, Issa, 7, and Ez Ad-Din, 5, in addition to Waddah’s brothers, Mohammed Hasan Abu Amer, 19, and Ahmed Hasan Amer, 35.
Also among the dead were Ahmed Suleiman Abu Amer, 40, his wife, Mona, 35, and their children Mohammed, 11, Marah, 10, Yasser, 8, Marwa, 5, and Suleiman, 3.
The residential building was about 400 square meters, owned by Karam Mohammed Al-Dali, where Abu Amer family lived in rented apartments, along with the families of al-Najjar, Breeka, and Mu’ammar.
The Israeli bombardment leveled the building, and caused severe damage to nearby buildings, leading to the death of 35 Palestinians, and wounding 27 others. Abu Amer family was living in a kindergarten in the building after fleeing their home. Abdel Ghani was from Khan Younis. Source: Mezan Center for Human Rights
July 20, 2014: Rahaf Akram Jum’a, 3, was killed by Israeli missiles targeting an apartment in the Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza city, also leading to the death of ten other family members, including a pregnant woman and six children between the ages of two and twelve. Rahaf was from Gaza. Source: Mezan Center For Human Rights