West Bank

December 9, 2015: Yosri Zakariyya Miswada, 21, was shot to death by Israeli soldiers after he reportedly after he stabbed a soldier, wounding him in the chest, and stabbed a settler, wounding him in the leg. His cousin, Ehab Fathi Maswada, 21, was killed near the Ibrahimi Mosque two days earlier. Yosri was from the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Source: IMEMC

December 8, 2015: Malek Akram Shahin, 18, was shot in the head with a hollow-point bullet by Israeli soldiers after the army invaded the Deheishe refugee camp.

A surgeon said that the hollow-point bullet penetrated Malek’s skull and detonated into more than three hundred smaller pieces, causing numerous skull fractures and extensive brain damage.

He also stated the bullet seems to be advanced type of hollow rounds the army is using, even more dangerous than the Dumdum illegal rounds, which detonate upon impact.

Eyewitnesses said a large Israeli military force invaded the refugee camp from various directions, leading to clashes with dozens of local youths, who hurled stones and empty bottles on them.

The army fired dozens of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs, causing several injuries.

The soldiers stormed and searched dozens of homes in the camp, and kidnapped five Palestinians, known to be members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Such bullets can cause damage to an aircraft, armored vehicles, and are designed to maximize tissue damage, bones, blood loss and shock.

Hollow bullets have been prohibited since The Hague Convention of 1899, Declaration III, that came as a continuance of the Sr. Petersburg, which banned the use of all exploding rounds.

However, the Israeli army has been frequently using those types of rounds against Palestinian civilians, including in the First Intifada of 1987.

Back in October, surgeons in the Hadassah Israeli Hospital in Jerusalem amputated the leg of child detainee, Issa Adnan Abdul-Mo’ty, 13 years of age, after various surgeries failed to save his right leg. He was also shot with a Dumdum bullet.

Earlier in November, detainee, Issa Jalal Sharawna, 17 years old, had his leg amputated, in Assaf HaRofeh Israeli hospital, as a result of severe injuries he sustained in early October, after Israeli settlers shot him.

Malek was from Deheishe refugee camp, in Bethlehem. Source: IMEMC

December 7, 2015:  Ehab Fathi Miswada, 21, was killed by Israeli soldiers near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron’s Old City.

The Israeli army claimed that Ehab allegedly stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli settler near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron’s Old City on Monday afternoon.

An Israeli police spokesperson said that border police shot the young Palestinian after he stabbed an Israeli man in his forties.

The Israeli was evacuated in critical condition to Shaare Zedek hospital, in Jerusalem, for medical treatment.

On December 19, 2015, the soldiers killed his cousin, ‘Abdul-Rahman Miswada, 21, in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli army claimed that Abdul-Rahman stabbed and injured two soldiers, in the Shuhada Street, in Hebron city.

Ehab was from Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank. Source: IMEMC

December 6, 2015: Amer Yasser Iskafi, 21, was killed by Israeli soldiers after he allegedly stabbed three Israelis. He was left to bleed to death. Amer was from Beit Jania, north of Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC

December 4, 2015: Abdul-Rahman Wajeeh Barghouthi, 27, was killed by Israeli soliders while walking near the main entrance of  his village. He was heading back home after visiting his fiancé in Deir Ghassana, a nearby village, when Israeli soldiers slapped him on the face. He pushed one of the soldiers, and the soldier fired two bullets at his neck. Abdul-Rahman was a Palestinian-American citizen from ‘Aboud village, near Ramallah. Source: IMEMC

December 4, 2015: Anas Bassam Hammad, 21, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers who claimed he rammed the soldiers with his car at the western entrance of Silwad town. Two people were mildly wounded. Anas was from Silwad town, east of Ramallah. Source: IMEMC

December 3, 2015: Mazin Hasan Ureiba, 36, was killed by Israeli army fire after he allegedly opened fire on soldiers at the Hizma military roadblock, wounding one. Mazin was a Palestinian Security Officer from Abu Dis town near Jerusalem. Source: IMEMC

December 3, 2015: ‘Ezz al-Deen Rayeq ‘Abdullah Raddad, 21, was killed by Israeli soldiers in te al-Masrara area of Jerusalem after he reportedly stabbed an Israeli police officer. ‘Ezz was trom the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem. Source: IMEMC

December 3, 2015: Taher Faisal Abdul Men’em Fanoun, 19, was killed by Israeli soldiers along with his cousin, Mustafa Fadel Fanoun, 15, after the two allegedly attempted to stab Israeli soldiers. Taher was from Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. Source: IMEMC