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 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
April 24, 2015: Ali Mohammad Abu Ghannam, 16, Was killed by Israeli soldiers near the Zaim military roadblock, east of Jerusalem.
He was walking with a young woman from his family when the soldiers uttered vulgar words towards the woman; a scuffle broke out before the soldiers shot him dead, alleging that he attempted to stab them.
The Israeli army refused to hand the body of the slain Palestinian to the Red Crescent ambulance that arrived on the scene, and took it to an unknown destination.
Israeli Ynet News quoted a police statement alleging that one of the soldiers managed to hold the Palestinian, “but he continued to run towards the soldiers,” and they shot him dead.
Ali was from Jabal al-Mukabber in Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC
January 14, 2015: Osama ‘Ali Mohammad Abu Jundiyya, 17, was killed by Israeli soldiers near the Gush Etzion settlement block. The soldiers prevented a Palestinian ambulance from reaching him, and he died of his wounds. The Israeli police alleged that he and his friend attempted to attack a car of an Israeli settler at the junction. Osama was from Yatta town, near Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. Source: IMEMC
December 29, 2014: Imam Jamil Ahmad Dweikat, 16, was killed by Israeli soldiers close to Za’tara roadblock, near Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, after the soldiers ambushed Palestinian protesters. He was shot with a live round in his back. Imam was from Beita town near Nablus. Source: IMEMC
December 16, 2014: Ehab Ssohweil, 15, died from serious wounds he suffered several months earlier in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, during the Israeli war on the coastal region, when the army bombarded the family home, instantly killing one of his brothers, and wounding many members of his family. Ehab was from Beit Hanoun. Source: IMEMC
November 18, 2014: Mohammad Amin Siyam, 15, was killed by an Israeli army missile in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. He suffered a serious injury on July 21, 2014, after an Israeli army missile struck the family home seriously injuring him and a family member, before they both died from their wounds. Mohammad was from Rafah. Source: IMEMC
October 24, 2014: Orwa Abdul-Wahab Hammad, 14, was killed by Israeli soldiers in Silwad town, near Ramallah, during a protest at the edge of the town, after an Israeli bullet struck him in the throat and exited from his neck. Orwa, who was also a US citizen, was from Silwad. Source: IMEMC