TEHRAN — Israeli soldiers shot dead a 14-year-old boy in the West Bank village of Burqa on November 9, kept ambulances from reaching the wounded and briefly held the paramedics who tried.
By November 10, the occupying military was still holding his body, Israel’s outgoing government had put 823 more settlement homes out to tender, and October’s figures showed settler violence at a monthly level the United Nations has never recorded before.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the boy as Moataz Iyad Daghlas and said Israel is refusing to hand over his body.
Two other teenagers were hit by live fire during the raid, northwest of Nablus: a 17-year-old in the abdomen and pelvis, a 19-year-old in the hand.
Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, reported that soldiers detained the boy’s father, Iyad, and a young man, Rayan Daghlas, and held three Palestine Red Crescent volunteers who were working in the village. Local sources said troops also closed the main road in both directions.
The Israeli military confirmed the shooting. It said soldiers opened fire to keep Palestinians from throwing stones at Israeli vehicles and that “several hits were confirmed.”
Rifles answering stones is a ratio the West Bank has lived with since October 2023.
