GAZA: Israeli forces shot and killed five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during the month of April. Palestinians continued to be shot and killed, in the West Bank, in Gaza and at Yarmouk.
The first Palestinian child to be killed by Israel this year, 17-year-old Ali Abu Ghannam was slain by Border Police at a checkpoint in the al-Tur neighborhood of Jerusalem on 24 April. The police claimed that the teen charged at occupation forces with a knife but Abu Ghannam’s family dismissed the accusation as a fabrication to cover up a killing “in cold blood.” His mother told media that her son had gone out that night to attend a wedding party, and was not carrying any weapon.
Palestinian girls stand in a doorway in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, that previously housed a mural of a weeping woman, 2 April. Reportedly painted by the British street artist Banksy, the mural had decorated the remains of a home destroyed by Israeli shelling last summer. A Gaza man said he was tricked into selling the mural for a paltry sum of 700 shekels ($180).
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Manal Tamimi, a prominent figure in her village’s grassroots resistance movement, is treated by medics after she was shot in the leg with a live bullet fired by an Israeli soldier during the weekly protest against the occupation in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh on 3 April.
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Palestinian students in Gaza City take part in a protest to show solidarity with refugees living in Syria’s Yarmouk camp, which is besieged by government forces and was recently overrun with ISIS fighters, 8 April.
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Fighters with the Qassam Brigades stand near a model of a Hamas-manufactured drone during a ceremony marking the eleventh anniversary of the death of former Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi in the eastern Gaza City district of Shujaiya on 17 April.
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Palestinian children take part in a Gaza City protest to show solidarity with prisoners held in Israeli jails on 20 April.
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Palestinian journalists and activists in front of the Red Cross office in the West Bank city of Nablus protest against Israel’s detention of journalist Amin Abu Wardeh, 21 April. Abu Wardeh was one of 27 Palestinians who were arrested during a late-night raid on their houses during a wide-scale arrest campaign in Nablus and its suburbs a few days previously.
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Supporters of rival Palestinian political parties attend a rally prior to Student Council elections at Birzeit University on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah on 21 April.
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A Palestinian man carries his child on 22 April as he looks out of his Gaza City house that was damaged by Israeli shelling last summer.
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