The killing of an 11-year-old Palestinian boy by the Israeli military on Tuesday brings to 165 the number of Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in the past year alone, the UN said, Al Jazeera reports.

The victim, identified as Abdullah Jamal Hawash, posed “no realistic threat” to Israeli forces when he was shot in the chest for throwing stones at an armoured vehicle in Nablus, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said.

The killing follows after a 17-year-old in Hebron was shot in the head by Israeli forces on Sunday and is now in critical condition. Three days earlier, another 11-year-old was also shot in the head and critically injured by Israeli forces in the Hebron governorate’s Arroub refugee camp.

Since last year, 165 Palestinian children have been killed in the occupied West Bank — 129 shot by Israeli soldiers and 36 killed in Israeli air strikes, the UN said.

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